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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXAI_fort-gibson-ammunition-to-immigration_Jersey-City-NY.html
In the decades following the War of 1812, Fort Gibson continued to be used as a military installation. Large magazines were built to store explosive black powder, which was too unstable to be kept at the Navy Yard in Brooklyn. During the Civil War…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX9W_fort-gibson-the-new-york-harbor-system_Jersey-City-NY.html
Fort Gibson was among 40 forts constructed between 1794 and 1812 in the United States. All were built during threats of war resulting from attacks on American shipping by Great Britain and France, two dominant powers of the 18th and 19th centuries…
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The fort that stood here on Ellis Island was part of two defensive triangles which made it almost impossible for enemy ships to approach New York City. Any ship entering the upper harbor first had to pass the guns of Fort Wood on Liberty Island an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX9U_the-south-side-of-ellis-island_Jersey-City-NJ.html
An Adventure in Stabilization
Ellis IslandThe 29 buildings on the south side of Ellis Island comprise one of the largest hospitals to be built in the United States during the first decades of this [20th] century. With more than a quarter millio…
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If you were standing here in 1812, you would be looking at the exterior wall of Fort Gibson, which was five and a half feet thick and sixteen feet high. What you see now are the remains of that wall's lower half. These remains, which continue seve…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX9J_fort-gibson-the-other-ellis-island-story_Jersey-City-NY.html
The stones you see here reveal yet another layer of the story of Ellis Island. This is the story of Fort Gibson, one of the earliest forts built after the American Revolution to protect New York Harbor. Discovered during the excavations for the Am…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX9D_the-new-ferry-building-ellis-island_Jersey-City-NJ.html
Restoration of the New Ferry Building on Ellis Island is being supported in part by a Federal Save America's Treasures award administered by the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
New Ferry BuildingIn 1999, the Statue of Liberty…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSGA_communipaw-and-lafayette_Jersey-City-NJ.html
Henry Hudson's "Half Moon" anchored off Communipaw in 1609. In 1633 the Dutch West India Company built the first house occupied by "John the Laugher." A small colony of Dutch houses and farms developed along the shore where water extended up to Ph…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8LX_the-central-railroad-of-new-jersey-crrnj-terminal_Jersey-City-NJ.html
From 1864 until 1967: the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CRRNJ) Terminal provided a vital link between the New Jersey and New York City shores. At its busiest, more than 200 ferry sailings transported tens of thousands of commuters and thousands …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8LT_liberation_Jersey-City-NJ.html
Dedicated to America's role of preserving freedom and rescuing the oppressed, this monument, by Natan Rapoport, of an American soldier carrying a World War II concentration camp survivor was gifted to the State of New Jersey through the generosity…