Aerial view of Fort Pike taken November 2019

ID: 5922 ~ Source: Wikimedia Commons ~ Creator: NOLADG ~ Date: 2019
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A brick fort the shape of a quarter circle surrounded by a moat on two sides and open water in its curved side.
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By Kalie A. Rhodes & Kathryn O'Dwyer, Editor
In 1819, President James Monroe commissioned Fort Pike’s construction alongside six other forts on the Louisiana coast. [2] Originally known as Fort Petites Coquilles, Monroe commissioned the fort…