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Fort Morgan is a historic masonry pentagonal bastion fort at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama, United States. Named for American Revolutionary War hero Daniel Morgan , it was built on the site of the earlier Fort Bowyer , an earthen and stockade-type fortification involved in the final land battles of the War of 1812 .
Avoirdupois is a system of mass based on a pound of 16 ounces, while Troy weight is the system of mass where 12 troy ounces equals one troy pound. The symbol g 0 is used to denote standard gravity in order to avoid confusion with the (upright) g symbol for gram.
State Route 180 (SR 180) is a 28.359-mile-long (45.639 km) state highway that serves as a west-to-east highway in Baldwin County, and travels between the cities of Fort Morgan and Orange Beach. It, along with State Route 182, is one of two state routes in the southern part of the county between the Intracoastal Waterway and the Gulf of Mexico.
Fort Morgan, also known as Fort Bowyer, is an unincorporated community in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. It is west of Gulf Shores on Mobile Point . Mobile Point extends from Gulf Shores to the west, towards historic Fort Morgan at the tip of the peninsula.
The Mobile Point Range Lights were a series of lighthouses at the entrance to Mobile Bay, at Mobile Point on the tip of the Fort Morgan peninsula, near Mobile, Alabama, United States. The first lighthouse was built as a landfall light by June 1822 at a cost of $9,995. [1] The lighthouse was a conical brick masonry tower, 40 feet (12 m) tall. It ...
Fort Morgan (Alabama) 2 1900 1923 Battery Lancaster: Fort Winfield Scott, California 2 M1897 carriages 1901 1918 Battery Chester: Fort Miley, California 2 M1897 carriages 1902 one gun removed in 1918 and the other in 1943 Battery DeRussy: Fort Monroe, Virginia: 3 M1901 carriages 1904 1944 Battery Parrott: Fort Monroe, Virginia 2 M1900 M1901 ...
Similarly, an inch-pound (or pound-inch) is the torque of one pound of force applied to one inch of distance from the pivot, and is equal to 1 ⁄ 12 lbf⋅ft (0.1129848 N⋅m). It is commonly used on torque wrenches and torque screwdrivers for setting specific fastener tension.
Somerville is located in central Morgan County at (34.469961, -86.798782), [7] along Alabama State Route 67, which leads northwest 15 miles (24 km) to Decatur and southeast 18 miles (29 km) to the edge of Baileyton