Where Crockett Once Walked

[neferetus]

Legend has it how Davy Crockett and his "Tennessee Boys' defended the earth and cedar palisade that ran from the church to the Low Barrack. Here in this 'present-day' photo of the Alamo you can see the reconstructed Low Barrack foundation in the foreground. If you follow it closely toward the church, you can see the line in flagstone that indicates where the palisade actually ran at the time of the battle. That 'little pile of 'sticks' was pretty long!

[Greg C.]

cool, i wish i could visit the alamo soon. maybe next year i will.

[Cole_blooded]

nice angle on the photo there!yeah that ole Palisades was hell on earth for Crockett and crew,and that goes to say we all say yeah i know what it must have been like at the palisades!it was most likely worse than your own night mare and then some!

TED........aka........coleblooded

[Bromhead24]

I can't remember where i read it but, i read that they want to reconstruct the Low barracks to it's origional look.
Since it's been over 12 years that i visited the place, i don't remember if there is any space to reconstruct the low barracks without raising a few business buildings on the SW corner.

Any more photo's of this area Nef?


Mike

[neferetus]

Bromhead24 said:

I can't remember where i read it but, i read that they want to reconstruct the Low barracks to it's origional look.
Since it's been over 12 years that i visited the place, i don't remember if there is any space to reconstruct the low barracks without raising a few business buildings on the SW corner.

Any more photo's of this area Nef?


Mike

Mike, before anyone could reconstruct the Low Barrack, the city would have to agree to close off Alamo street to traffic. (Or else, make it but a one way street, with autos passing through the reconstructed main gate!

This photo shows the west end of the reconstructed Low Barrack foundation. The reconstruction ends at about the point in the building where the main gate would've originally cut through. Today, pedestrians who walk along that sidewalk in the foreground are oblivious to the fact that they are actually passing through the Alamo's main gate.

Here's another shot of the eastern end of the Low Barrack foundation, looking toward the Long Barrack. (Note the line in the flagstone that indicates where the low wall once stood. Also, on the right, you can see where the palisade begins.)

[neferetus]

Not that there is any historical basis for it, but it is my own personal belief that Crockett may've fallen right at the point in this photograph where the palisade, Low Barrack and low wall all meet. If Crockett had been defending the palisade, the nearest structure that he, or his men had a chance to make it to would have been the 'cocina', or kitchen hut that ran north, jut off of the end of the Low Barrack. Caught out in the open and trapped though, he could very well have died outdoors there, as he probably would have wanted to, anyway. ("I don't like to be hemmed in.")

[Bromhead24]

Of all the times i visited the site, i don't remember any of these things...

[neferetus]

For the March 6, 2005 reenactment, SALHA
emplaced a 'temporary' palisade in the very same
spot where Crockett may've stood, 169 years
before.

Speaking of Crockett here's SALHA's own
'David', dressed very much like Billy-Bob Thornton.
And, like Thornton, his cap seems to have crawled away.

[neferetus]

Kenny Pruitt, wearing the more traditional
attire of buckskin and coonskin cap, appeared
as Davy Crockett at the March 6, 1986 Alamo reenactment on the John Wayne movie set in
Alamo Village. Mike Waters, as Bowie, lies upon
his cot. (That's me in the black hat, hidden
behind Pruitt.)

Others who have appeared at Alamo Village as
Crockett include:

John Wayne--- The Alamo (1960)
Jeff Bearden----Alamo: The New Defenders (1999)
Merrill Connolly- Alamo: The Price Of Freedom (1988)
Brian Keith------- 13 Days To Glory (1987)
John Schneider--- James Michener's TEXAS (1997)

[Greg C.]

great photos!

[MrLouisiana]

*whistles*

Not bad, not bad at all.

[The Mountain Man]

Real good photos.
I plan on going to the Alamo soon I hope..
How many Tennessean were with David at the Alamo??

[Greg C.]

six from what i heard

[neferetus]

Here's Bill Chemerka, wearing Merrill Connolly's Crockett outfit and holding 'Invisible Betsey', on the set of "Alamo, The Price Of Freedom". Bill doubled for Crocket's body in the aftermath scenes.

[Greg C.]

wow, he looks like a good crockett!

[The Mountain Man]

Did David ever go up into Kentuck???

[neferetus]

The said:

Did David ever go up into Kentuck???

Technically, Crockett's birthplace in Limestone, Greene County, Tennessee, was once a part of Kentucky and later annexed to Tennessee.

"Born in a cabin, down in Ken-tuck- kee!"

[The Mountain Man]

neferetus said:

Technically, Crockett's birthplace in Limestone, Greene County, Tennessee, was once a part of Kentucky and later annexed to Tennessee.

"Born in a cabin, down in Ken-tuck- kee!"

When did it get annexed to Tenn.

[Greg C.]

The said:

When did it get annexed to Tenn.

to add to that question, was it before d.c was born?

[neferetus]

For those of you who will be in the vicinity of Morristown Tennessee tomorrow, August 17, 2005, make sure to stop on by the Crockett Tavern Museum to help celebrate Ol' Davy's 219th birthday!

Built on the site of David Crockett's boyhood home, the Museum is a reconstruction of John Crockett's 1790's Tavern.

Here's a link: www.korrnet.org/crockett