Blakeley
Ghost town · United States
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- 1814
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 30.742, -87.924
Why it was abandoned
❔ Cause unknown
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History
Blakeley is a ghost town in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. During the height of its existence, Blakeley was a thriving town which flourished as a competitor to its western neighbor, Mobile. Blakeley was the county seat for Baldwin County from 1820 until 1868, when the county government was moved south to Daphne. Blakeley was the location of a major fort during the Civil War. One of the last battles of the Civil War was fought here in April 1865, as Union soldiers overran Confederates. The town is now in an Alabama historic state park known as Historic Blakeley State Park, north of Spanish Fort.