North Carolina's Fort Hampton-- Part 1: Washed Away By a Hurricane

Fort Hampton guarded Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina during the War of 1812.  It was a little masonry fort that was washed into the inlet by a hurricane within a dozen years of construction.

I came across this mention of the fort, which I had never heard of before.  Probably because it was gone by the Civil War and because until the bicentennial of the War of 1812, I didn't know a whole lot about that war.

As such, i have done some research on Fort Hampton.

--Brock-Perry