Building Fort Sumter was a long process

[Jim Garrett]

Several years ago, my wife's cousin from Rockport Ma. asked me about the rock used for the island upon which Ft. Sumter was constructed. Waite Rawls, Co-Executive Director of the American Civil War Museum / Museum of the Confederacy provided a great deal of research. Most of the stone was brought down by barge from a quarry in Rockport Ma. Waite even had receipts for the rock from Rockport.