How small-town Alabama residents have fought 20-YEAR battle against developers to retain 'simple country life' amid annexation fears Fort Morgan locals in southern Alabama are fighting annexation by Gulf Shores By Laura Parnaby For Dailymail.Com Published: 08:21 EDT, 25 May 2024 | Updated: 08:21 EDT, 25 May 2024 e-mail View comments For more than 20 years, a group of residents have been fighting a battle to preserve one of the last bastions of rural peace on Alabama 's small slice of the southern coast. Fort Morgan is not a city or even a town - it's an 'unincorporated community' of around 650 people in Baldwin County sandwiched between the blue waters of Bon Secour Bay and the Gulf of Mexico .
It occupies a narrow, sandy peninsula traversed by a single two-lane highway. The western tip is punctuated by an early-1800's pentagonal fortress, while urban life begins 10 miles to the east. The highway is lined by well-kept, multicolored homes with picturesque ocean views.
Local father-of-five Bryce Porter said residents are drawn to the area for its beautiful natural surroundings and the slow pace of life that comes with it. But this came under threat in 2003 when residents woke up one morning to find that the highway had been annexed to a city overnight - impacting the residents living on it as well as those on the tiny tributary roads which trail off towards the beach. For more than 20 years, a group of residents have been fighting a battle to preserve one of the last bastions o.
