A large stone fort, Qalat Mudawwara, was constructed in the 18th century by the Ottoman administration to afford protection to the hajj pilgrims.
There are references to a fortification at this site as early as the 9th and 16th centuries.
The first Western description of the fort is given by Charles Montagu Doughty in an account first published in 1888.
He describes Medowwara (sic) "...the kellat Medowwara, where we came to water.
The place lies very desolate; the fort is built at a spring, defended now by a vault from the Beduin's hostility.
We felt the noon here very sultry and the sun glancing again from the sand we were between two heats. ..."

This was used as a first aid post by Major Buxton during the attack on Mudawwara in August 1918 and was reused by Glubb Pasha during the mid-20th century.

The fort was vandalised, in the 1980s, by looters using bulldozers looking for gold and causing the south elevation to collapse.
Today, it can be found, in a state of imminent collapse, 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) to the west of the station.
A large stone fort, Qalat Mudawwara, was constructed in the 18th century by the Ottoman administration to afford protection to the hajj pilgrims. There are references to a fortification at this site as early as the 9th and 16th centuries. The first Western description of the fort is given by Charles Montagu Doughty in an account first published in 1888. He describes Medowwara (sic) "...the kellat Medowwara, where we came to water. The place lies very desolate; the fort is built at a spring, defended now by a vault from the Beduin's hostility. We felt the noon here very sultry and the sun glancing again from the sand we were between two heats. ..."
This was used as a first aid post by Major Buxton during the attack on Mudawwara in August 1918 and was reused by Glubb Pasha during the mid-20th century. 
The fort was vandalised, in the 1980s, by looters using bulldozers looking for gold and causing the south elevation to collapse. Today, it can be found, in a state of imminent collapse, 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) to the west of the station.
Mudawwara