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 of rural peace on Alabama 's small slice of the southern coast. (Pictured: Fort Morgan, the beachfront area in question) Joe Emerson (pictured) president of the Fort Morgan Civic Association, said its not about the small number of houses defecting to the city, but the wider threat they represent to the communal way of life Local father-.
