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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEA4_fort-tompkins_Wellsburg-NY.html
Two forts, both named Fort Tompkins, have occupied this hill. In 1814 the state of New York started the first Fort Tompkins - a pentagon-shaped stone structure with round bastions at each of the five angles. Never fully completed, the first fort l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME9Q_narrows-overlook-fort-hamilton_Wellsburg-NY.html
In the summer of 1776, American lookouts watched a British fleet massing in the Narrows from this point. Over two hundred ships and thirty thousand men, under the command of General William Howe and his brother, Admiral Lord Richard Howe were set …