Gallery--Fort Mims

Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Read the award-winning novel, Wounded Spirits
by author April W Gardner.

FORT MIMS, Baldwin County, AL
Nothing remains of the actual fort, but in the last decade the site has been thoroughly excavated, artifacts uncovered, and the layout defined.
Replica of the fort wall

Tensaw Lake, now a part of the Alabama River

Replica well over the location of the excavated fort well and where Zachariah's ax head was found
Plan of the fort found at excavation site

artist's rendition of the massacre

artist's rendition of the massacre

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