Site - looking North
Main site - looking North
Main site - looking North
Main site - looking South
Main site - looking South
Radar, looking South
GATR site, looking North
Housing area, looking North
Housing area, looking South
2009 photos contribued by Charlie Pormann
Now a part of the U.S. Coast Guard`s Dauphin Island Recreational Complex, a portion of the old housing area.
Photo source: http://www.uscg.mil/mwr/Cottages/DauphinIslandRecreationComplex.htm
Photo source: E. Eean McNaughton Architects
Now part of the Estuarium, the old U.S. Air Force search-radar tower is seen to the left.
The old Air Force Station was at the left center of this photo, behind the fort.
Contributed by Gene McManus
Dauphin Island Sea Lab, a marine educational institution, occupies the
former Dauphin Island AFS site. The esturarium sits immediately adjacent to the
former search radar tower, left background. The esturarium air handlers are on the
upper deck of the tower. The tower is not physically connected to the esturarium.
The DISL Administration building has a fairly extensive marine library. I enquired
whether they had any information at all on the old Air Force Station, and unfortunately
they did not.
DISL uses the old barracks as dormitories for students. All buildings are in excellent
repair, and the area neat. It appears that all the former AFS buildings are in current
use by the Sea Lab.
The mess hall houses the student cafeteria.
Fort Gaines, one of two forts which guarded Mobile Bay during the Civil War is immediately
east of the old Air Force Station.
Contributed by Scott Murdock
[The following photos are from the Dauphin Island Sea Lab web site]
