Description: Gookin's Battery was a military fortification in Erie County, Buffalo, that was active from its construction in 1812, to 1814. The fort sat upon a high bank to the south of the future site of Fort Porter and was armed with a single 24-pounder cannon. To the south of Gookin's Battery was the Terrace Battery, located south of the present-day water works, and to the north of the Old Sow.