Ken, thank you SO much for this link and information. We walked all over Fort Morgan looking for the plaque and were surprised that the park ranger knew nothing about it. I had come to believe that was just something the author heard and included in the book. I'm glad to know it was indeed there at one time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:19:40 -0400 > From: "Ken Dunlap" <kdunlap59@comcast.net> > Subject: Re: [TNDAVIDS] TNDAVIDS Digest, Vol 7, Issue 14 > To: <tndavids@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <9B3462AE67A04772B3B1FA556D0BA89C@Main> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > I ran across a 2009 story regarding the plaque to Prince Madoc at Ft. Morgan > in Alabama which states that it was blown down by a hurricane in 1979. They > want to have it placed back at the fort. > http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/03/18/alabama-fights-to-reinstate-plaque-celebrating-welsh-columbus-91466-23169115/ > > Ken Dunlap > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Glenda Todd" <stardust40@lighttube.net> > To: <tndavids@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 5:47 AM > Subject: Re: [TNDAVIDS] TNDAVIDS Digest, Vol 7, Issue 14 > > > >> Thanks for posting this, I have studied/researched the Melungeons for >> many years and this is of extreme interest to me. In one of the many >> books I read on the Melungeons, it gave the following story: A Welsh >> prince named Madoc supposedly sailed to the US in 1170, over 300 years >> before Columbus, and left ships full of Welsh settlers at Ft. Morgan on >> Mobile Bay in Alabama. It stated the DAR erected a plaque to Madoc at >> Ft. Morgan years ago. My husband and I went to Ft. Morgan, walked the >> grounds without locating the plaque, talked to the park ranger and he >> stated he had been there 15 years and never had seen the plaque. Some of >> the books, I think written by Dr. Kennedy who descended from these >> supposedly Welsh people, stated they traveled from the Ft. Morgan area >> into the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee and Virginia where they >> settled and where many of them still live today. >> >> >> >