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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H1R_lituanica_Virginia-City-NY.html
Lituanica
1923 - 2013
80th Anniversary Flight across the Atlantic
Lithuanian Pilots
Steponas Darius and Stasys Girenas
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEBU_fort-wadsworth_Virginia-City-NY.html
Fort Wadsworth side:Point, counterpoint. As one nation improves its offensive weapons, another revamps its defenses. It's the story of military history, and Fort Wadsworth tells it as well as any place in America.
British soldiers built the fir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEAM_dry-moat-and-counterscarp_Virginia-City-NY.html
From 1859 to 1876, army engineers built these 30-foot-high granite walls to form this corridor. In military terms, Fort Tompkin's scarp (wall to your right) now faced a counterscarp (wall to your left), creating a 30-foot-wide dry moat. When origi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEAL_battery-duane_Virginia-City-NY.html
Crumbling over time, these concrete platforms mark where large guns once guarded New York Harbor. In the late 1800s, a Glacis Mortar Battery - once located just beyond these ruins - could lob projectiles onto enemy ships entering the Narrows below…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME9Z_defending-new-york-harbor_Virginia-City-NY.html
" . . . [the Narrows are] the place pointed out by nature for the defense of the harbor . . . " ? ? Prussian General Friedrich von Steuben, Aide to General George Washington during the Revolutionary War
How do you protect one of the world's bu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME9Y_june-1975_Virginia-City-NY.html
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the United States Army on 14 June 1975 and the 150th anniversary of Fort Hamilton on 11 June 1975, this plaque is dedicated. We ask our successors to hold an appropriate observance in June 2025 to commemorat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME9X_fort-hamilton-officers-club_Virginia-City-NY.html
This casemate fort, named in honor of Alexander Hamilton, was constructed during the years 1825 - 1831 as part of the New York Harbor coastal defense network. It is situated on the site of the two earlier earthworks. One was a 1778 British fortifi…