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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8MZ_this-ancient-cannon_New-York-NY.html
This Ancient Cannonwas exhumed in 1892 on the site ofno. 55 Broadway on the corner of Exchange Alleyor the highway leading to thefortification called oyster pasty 1695-1783Presented to the City of New York byWilliam Henry Mairs——&mdash…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8MS_marinus-willett_New-York-NY.html
Born, July, 1740. Marinus Willett. Died, Aug. 1830.Officer of New York Militia 1775-78.Sheriff of New York, 1784-92.Mayor of New York 1807-08.President of Electoral College, 1824.To commemorate the gallant and patriotic act of Marinus Willett in h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8MM_fraunces-tavern_New-York-NY.html
After the American Revolutionary War, on December 4, 1783, General George Washington bade an emotional farewell to his officers at a banquet held in the Long Room, located on the second floor of this tavern. Samuel Fraunces, a West Indian innkeepe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5JX_castle-clinton_New-York-NY.html
This sandstone fort was built in 1811 as one of five forts erected to defend New York Harbor. The fort originally stood on a small island that was linked to Manhattan by a 200-foot wooden causeway and drawbridge. In the 1850s, landfill extended Ba…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5JU_castle-clinton-national-monument_New-York-NY.html
[Left plaque]:Last of a series of forts which, from the Dutch ssettlement of 1624, guarded lower Manhattan, this structure was built by the United States in the years 1808 to 1811. It was first called "West Battery," and was one of the important d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21P_the-new-colossus_New-York-NY.html
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, with conquering limbs astride from land to land; here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand a mighty woman with a torch, whose flame is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From he…