Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[D.B.Moody]

@D.B.Moody What's so funny, eh?

You had that ready so fast that I just guessed the connection with previous post and there it was when I Googled. It may help that way back when, like when i took that picture in Jefferson Barracks, I was a history teacher.
I had to respond, but I don't want to name the skyline.

 

[DBhomebrew]

I was a history teacher.

Not sure if I knew that. Roughly your generation, I believe, so was my Dad. All of our family vacations were to historical sites.

 

[govner1]

Saratoga

 

[DBhomebrew]

Saratoga

Not far.

 

[govner1]

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Ft. William Henry

 

[DBhomebrew]

Ft. William Henry

Yep, at the opposite end of Lake George as Fort Ticonderoga (Carillon). This is the fort that falls during Last of the Mohicans.

 

[govner1]

 

[govner1]

Time for a hint??

 

[D.B.Moody]

Time for a hint??

Probably, so here's one: This appears to be a moated fort, and it doesn't look real old, so probably in US.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Time for a hint??

There's no hurry, it's been less than 24h, gives some other people a chance.

But it's clearly not that big, designed around cannon, but quite solid. So one would think 18th century, probably a minor theatre of the European colonial wars but with locally fierce fighting. Obvious influence of Vauban and friends in the design, so maybe France or their proxies?

So in the circumstances, probably another one of the Anglo-French colonial wars in North America, vegetation looks more US than Canada?

 

[govner1]

It s US. Built just after the War of 1812.

 

[tracer bullet]

It s US. Built just after the War of 1812.

Hmm, so probably somewhere in the northeast, and along a river or a Great Lake. Or maybe along the Atlantic coast. But after the war of 1812 so maybe somewhere else altogether. Dangit!

Probably, so here's one: This appears to be a moated fort, and it doesn't look real old, so probably in US.

Ahah! "Moated American Forts" got it.

http://www.starforts.com/moatnotes.html
From the article:

Fort Macon, completed in 1834 to defend Beaufort, North Carolina from the slings and arrows of naval misfortune, was designed by starfort wunderkind Simon Bernard (1779-1839). Bernard was an innovative soul, as evidenced by the distinctly non-starry shape of this fort...though it was admittedly built in an era when the starfort was ceasing to be the be-all, end-all of defensive fortification.​

Bernard intended for Fort Macon to be surrounded by delicious salt water, drawn from the nearby, ever-voluminous Atlantic Ocean. A channel was duly dug for this purpose, but the system never worked, and eventually engineers just filled in a few feet of the moat and it became...a dry moat. As the sea is very close to Fort Macon and its counterfire batteries and dry moat are all just a smidge below sea level, a walk through this moat today is an exercise in squishyness. Its surface isn't grass, exactly, but it is a pleasing shade of green.

Once it was determined that Fort Macon would not be surrounded with water, the possibility of an attacking force getting into the dry moat had to be addressed. An impressive series of counterfire galleries were constructed within the moat's walls, facing the fort itself: Three of these galleries mounted cannon, and one rifle gallery, consisting of a narrow tunnel with fifteen loopholes for the leisurely picking off of one's attackers, are by far the coolest part of that fort today.

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[DBhomebrew]

And during WW2, site of the last casualties of the American Civil War!

Also, Blackbeard was active in those waters. A sunken ship purported to be his is being recovered near the fort.

Cool history with this clue. Thanks @govner1

 

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[DBhomebrew]

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Wigwam Village #2, Cave City, Kentucky

 

[bracconiere]

hmmm, concrete tipi... 8 in a row...google what say you?


Wigwam Motel...Halbrook AZ? i like the A/C in the window!

edit: wait kentucky? is this a chain motel?

 

[DBhomebrew]

I'm looking at the foliage and walkway.

 

[bracconiere]

I'm looking at the foliage and walkway.

you're very right...if it was Arizona that would nature's concrete, and celiche!

but halbrook, is near flag staff and northern...

 

[DBhomebrew]

you're very right...if it was Arizona that would nature's concrete, and celiche!

but halbrook, is near flag staff and northern...

Covered in pine.

 

[bracconiere]

Covered in pine.

now, do they have high altitude pine tree's in kentucky?

 

[govner1]

And during WW2, site of the last casualties of the American Civil War!

Also, Blackbeard was active in those waters. A sunken ship purported to be his is being recovered near the fort.

Cool history with this clue. Thanks @govner1

@DBhomebrew is correct.!Ft. Moody is one of many examples of Star Forts.

 

[DBhomebrew]

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[bracconiere]

wait did i get lost in a page break in this game? i was waiting for the winner of the tipi's?

 

[DBhomebrew]

Yep! I got confused with #12,441!

 

[bracconiere]

ok....and i need to inject some humor!



Rock-Star, get it? lol, only we don't need no damn drug dealers on speed dial! just a AIO Digiboil or something....

 

[govner1]

Yep! I got confused with #12,441!

Sorry, my fault. No answers for quite a while then a real sh*t storm of replies and I responded late!

 

[bracconiere]

real sh*t storm of replies

that's not a dig at me is it?

wait @tracer bullet posted without confirmation!

 

[tracer bullet]

Hmm, I self-confirmed I posted a link to a page with the exact picture of the fort and knew 100% that was it. However, it would have been appropriate to have been given the thumbs up before posting my own picture. I'll wait next time.

As for my picture, yes it's one of the WigWam Motel chains, and it is indeed #2 in Cave City, KY. I never stayed there but drove past it many times. My uncle spent his career at Mammoth Cave nearby. I was looking through my own pictures and wanted to give Europe a break.

Officially - @DBhomebrew is correct and up.

 

[DBhomebrew]

 

[tracer bullet]

I'd need time to figure out exactly where but I'm rather positive that's North Carolina. I've spent time in Cashiers / Brevard / Pisgah / Blue Ridge Pkwy area and am sure I've seen this in person.