A Perfect Gibraltar

After the repulse of the Union Navy on May 15, 1862, Drewry’s Bluff became famous as a tangible symbol of Confederate resistance. Work crews made up of impressed slave labor continued construction of the fort, eventually completing a four-sided, enclosed ...

Gibraltar Island

This 6.5 acre island, named for the resemblance of its dolomite ledges to the Rock of Gibraltar, was the likely observation site for Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's naval forces during the Battle of Lake Erie in September 1813. Stone Laboratory, ...

"Gibraltar of the West"

Troops under Gen. Leonidas Polk fortified strategic line of bluffs here Sept. 3, 1861 marking CSA's first move in Ky. To prevent passage of Union gunboats, a huge chain was stretched across the Mississippi River. After Union success in Tenn., ...

Gibraltar Monument

Erected

by

Jay Cooke

patriotic financier

of the Civil War

to mark the

corner stone of a

proposed monument

commemorating

Commodore Perry's

victory at the

Battle of Lake Erie

Sept 10 1813

"We have met the enemy

and they are ours"

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"This American Gibraltar"

"Cumberland Gap is the strongest position I have ever seen except Gibraltar." These were Union General George W. Morgan's words after viewing the fortification around the Gap.

On June 19, 1862, he wrote to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, "The ...

Gibraltar

In 1844, John Rodney Brinkle, grandnephew of Delaware patriot Caesar Rodney, built the Italianate core of this Brandywine granite home, named for the high, prominent rocky outcropping upon which it sits. In 1909, Hugh Rodney Sharp (1880-1968) and his wife ...