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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/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/HMEA1_battery-weed_Prescott-NY.html
Begun in 1847, this granite structure was finally completed during the Civil War. Its four-tier design allowed up to 116 guns to skip cannonballs across the Narrows. However, by the mid-1860s bigger, more-accurate guns could destroy a stone fort l…
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/HME9J_fort-wadsworth_Salem-NY.html
This strategic coastal locationat the Narrows was used as thestaging ground for the massiveBritish invasion of Brooklynin August 1776.
Revolutionary War Heritage Trail
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCQO_historic-fort-wadsworth_Savannah-NY.html
As its discoverer in 1574, Verrazzano observed the surrounding terrain and called it Agoleme. Upon this high ground Lenape Indians gazed down on Hudson's Half Moon as it sailed through the Narrows in 1609. In 1636, the Dutch erected the first bloc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCNV_staten-island-world-war-i-memorial_Southbury-NY.html
Front inscription: America over the top
Rear inscription: Erected by the residents of Public School Dist. 26 in honor of the 75 men who left to fight in the great World War. We lovingly inscribe the names of those who paid the supreme sacrifice…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5IH_philipsburg-manor_Sleepy-Hollow-NY.html
Philips Manor was an 18th-century milling, farming and trading complex owned by the Loyalist Philipse family, tenanted by farmers, and operated by enslaved men, women and children.
Revolutionary War Heritage Trail
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5IG_conference-house_West-View-NY.html
In September 1776, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Edward Rutledge met here with British Lord Howe in an unsuccessful negotiation for peace.
Revolutionary War Heritage Trail
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4XD_billopp-house_Fort-Calhoun-NY.html
Built by and for Christopher Billopp about 1680, this house was long a center of colonial hospitality. It is known also as "Conference House" because Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Edward Rutledge met here with Lord Howe at his request on Septe…