Fort Pike and Fort Macomb Facebook Events Page for Clean Up Days: https://www.facebook.com/pg/FortPikeandFortMacomb/events/?ref=page_internal Would you like to help clean up the fort and enter the property legally? Click the link below to find out more about the upcoming clean-up volunteer days. DO NOT TRESPASS! Fort Pike is currently closed to the public. The fence and signs protect the state from legal responsibility if you enter the fort and are hurt on the premises. If you trespass anyway (AGAIN, DON'T), please respect the property and refrain from leaving with souvenirs or damaging the property by graffiti or vandalism. This is our national history, they don't make them anymore, and how we treat these sites will decide if our children and their children get to enjoy them or not. I HIGHLY encourage you to engage in clean-up of this and other sites which discourages trespassing and vandalism. Fort Pike Official Website: https://www.crt.state.la.us/louisiana-state-parks/historic-sites/fort-pike-state-historic-site/index You can make a donation to the national park service, and I encourage you to do so with a check, utilizing the 'memo' section to declare your donation can only be used to the effort to reopen Fort Pike and no other purpose. Or make a donation without demand. That's a great thing to do. President Monroe ordered the construction of Fort Pike (and several other structures) to protect our coast from foreign invasion after the war of 1812. The fort was used for training, staging, and a prison way-point through the years up until 1871. It was cared for officially before being abandoned in 1890. In 1972 it became a historical site. Apparently no cannons were ever fired from the fort, but they did have a hot shot oven to burn wooden ships. It was temporarily closed after several storms damaged it but re-opened each time. It has been closed since early 2015 due to budget cuts, arguably due to our governor Bobby Jindal leaving the state of Louisiana in financial ruin during his 2nd term due to his presidential ambitions. His first term policies made sense for the state and he easily won re-election, but he came into national attention/popularity, partially from his state of the union response speech in 2009. He thought he could make a presidential run and cut state funding to almost all services in an attempt to claim he was 'fiscally responsible' in comparison to president Obama. His 2nd term policies left our state in a bad situation that we are still recovering slowly from. It has cost considerably more to return the state to partial activity than what he 'saved' by shutting things down, and Fort Pike remaining closed is arguably one of the many consequences of his 2nd term policies. Another consequence of his policies is our educati ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7KO6xAlYNY

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