Ya know when you're hip to THE DAUPHIN ISLAND STORY, even the morning news brings a history lesson. This morning we're hearing about the reunification of illegal immigrant families at the Port Isabel Detention Center in Texas. Well back in 1846, it was called POINT ISABEL (just like the one on D.I.) and every steamboat in Alabama that could make the trip was heading that way. There was no Fort Gaines during the summer of 1846 but if you stood on the east end on the ruins of the U.S. fortification abandoned in 1821 and looked over toward Fort Morgan, you would have seen steamships and schooners heading out each day for POINT ISABEL. (from the May 31, 1846 NEW YORK DAILY HERALD)