Posted 8 years ago
PhotoDeluxe
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To me it looks foreign, but I have no clue where it may have been taken. I'd guess it was along the ocean and to me the architecture looks Spanish, like something from Spain or Portugal. Does anyone have any idea what this is?
Looks like a light house at the end of a jetty.
Brunswick, I wish! I just looked up pictures of Alcatraz, but didn't see too many pre-federal prison photos, and even then I didn't see any with the fortified walls. But it must be some type of fort with the walls
Looks a lot like the Havana El Morro fort and lighthouse?
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/havana-el-morro-fort-and-lighthouse-high-res-stock-photography/598336985
Good call PoliticalPinbacks! Maybe this is Spanish-American war era?
And before would be my guess
My grandpa was in the Spanish-American War, we tend to live long and have kids late LOL
PoliticalPinbacks, that would explain a SP-AM War marker on a 1960s grave that I saw. Albeit, it also had a WW2 marker on it-- no WW1, mind you. LOL.
It might at that SpiritBear
Thomas, the one at the end of the Keys Is Ft. Jefferson. Alcatraz was a fort before a prison.
Ft. Jefferson is about 70 miles west from Key West in the Dry Tortugas National park. It has a moat around it so this probably isn't it. I have been there a few times and I also do not remember the tower. Awesome place to visit if you get the chance! Thrifty
Fort Jefferson is a leaky brick structure, at sea level, 70 miles from the Florida coast on an islet in a group of islets called the Dry Tortugas - Tortugas for the tortoises that found refuge there and Dry because there is no fresh water - that was last used as a Federal prison. Now that's unpleasant maximum security but this picture is El Morro, not Fort Jefferson. :+)