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Fort Pike 2019

An orbit around Ft. Pike at the Rigolets in New Orleans East. The fort is closed to visitors as of this posting due to budget constraints. Just checking up on it via Yuneec Typhoon H drone and 4K video.

Begun in 1819 and completed in 1826, Fort Pike was named for the explorer and soldier General Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779-1813) whose name is also attached to Pike's Peak in the Rocky Mountains. Fort Pike is the first of the Third System fortifications, a group of brick and masonry structures built between 1816 and 1867. The fort was designed to withstand attack from land or sea.