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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZV8_new-dorp-beach-memorial-a-war-memorial_NY.html
In honor of the men and women of New Dorp Beach who served their country in World War II especially those who made the supreme sacrifice
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y4H_quarantine-boarding-station_NY.html
Preventing Infectious Disease
For many years, this boarding station helped to prevent the spread of infectious diseases in the United States. From 1783 to 1971, officers working at this station boarded and inspected thousands of ships coming into…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEQX_verrazano-narrows-bridge_Doylestown-NY.html
"We found a pleasant place below steep little hills. And from among those hills a mighty deep-mouthed river ran into the sea." ? ? Giovanni da Verrazano, Italian explorer, 1524
Until the 1960s, the only way from Brooklyn to Staten Island was …
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/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