After leaving Parris Island, we commenced a long drive over narrow roads to Fort Fremont. Much of the way the road was lined with trees just dripping Spanish moss and all were blowing in the wind. A real gone with the wind thing if you know what I mean.
Did I mention it was extremely windy today plus that wind blew cold right through you.
As we neared Fort Fremont, the roads got almost to one lane with trees and bushes right up next to it. Then it was as if we were in someone's driveway and I'm looking at Ed.
We finally got to Fort Fremont which was an 1898 Endicott U.S. fortification built around the time of the Spanish-American War to protect the U.S. Naval Station at Port Royal which is one of the largest deep-water harbors on the Atlantic Coast.
During the Civil War the Union's South Atlantic Blockading Squadron established a massive base here. From 1891 to 1895, a dry dock was built here, the only one south of Norfolk, Virginia.
--RoadDog
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