The erosion continued and eventually Fort Hampton was swept into the sea. There is no exact record record of when it met its end. Local tradition has it disappearing virtually overnight during a summer storm. Regardless, it was definitely an early season hurricane on June 2-3, 1825, which finally did it in.
By February 1826, it was found that high tide had reaehed some 200 feet behind the fort's former location.
By 1834, the fort's site was entirely in the inlet.
The site of Fort Macon is roughly 1340 feet southwest of the site of the former Fort Hampton. Fort Macon itself was saved by the construction of brick and stone sea jetties.
A couple of iron objects have been found on the beach by Fort Macon which had typical hardware which would have been used at Fort Hampton.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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