New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center

Oswego, Fort

1 - Fort Oswego: First British fort at Oswego started as a trading post in 1722 on the West bank of river, First and Lake Street, Oswego. In the summer of 1724, to counter Magazin Royal (Joncaire's Blockhouse) at Niagara, New Yorker's under orders of Gove…

https://museum.dmna.ny.gov/forts/oswego

Otis, Camp

Camp Otis: 1899, Monroe County, Rochester. Little is known, only information is reference to a "noon mess" at Camp Otis on a stereocard. Possibly Spanish American War muster post.

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Ox, Fort

Fort Ox: 1756, Oswego County. A temporary British defensive position at the junction of Ox Creek and the Oswego (Onnadaga) River. Involved with General Bradstreet's battles with the French in July 1756.

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Oyster Bay, Fort/Encampment

Oyster Bay Fort: 1779-81, Nassau County, Town of Oyster Bay. A British fortification of a hill. Occupied by Simcoe's Queens Rangers. Not attacked by Americans during the war. Site is at Orchard and Prospect Streets. [Description of Image] Oyster Bay E…

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Oyster Bay (NY-23) Nike Base

Oyster Bay (NY-23) Nike Base: 1955-63, Integrated Fire Control Area for 30 Nike-Ajax Missiles, Launcher Area was Hicksville (Brookville). Inactivated 1963. Control area is used by the Nassau County Board of Coop Services. For more information see alpha.f…

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Peck Family Flag | Civil War

In June 1862, 16-year-old Albert Peck from Syracuse, New York, made this United States flag. With some help from his mother, Salmone Kinne Peck, young Peck hand-stitched the flag to include 34 stars. Peck and his family flew the flag from a tall flagpole …

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7th Regiment Departure Flag | Civil War

Late in the afternoon on April 19, 1861, the 7th Regiment, New York State Militia formed up in Lafayette Place in New York City, wheeled into column, and began a march down Broadway destined for the nation’s capital. The inspirational journey, amid a dens…

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United States National Flag | 1851-1858

This printed cotton flag in the U.S. national pattern includes 31 stars in the canton. The thirty-first star represents the state of California. Thirty-one star flags remained official until July 1858 when a thirty-second star was added to represent the s…

https://museum.dmna.ny.gov/flags/other/united-states-national-flag-1851-185

IX Corps | Commemorative Flag | c. 1865

This red wool flag or banner includes a IX Corps badge featuring a red cannon crossing a blue fouled anchor on a white shield. The unique badge, adopted in April 1864, honors the corps' amphibious duties along the Atlantic seaboard in 1862. The white cott…

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Paris, Fort

Fort Paris: 1777, Stone Arabia, Montgomery County. A strong palisade with a blockhouse on the western side, enclosing the 1737 house, farm, outbuildings, and trading post of Isaac Paris, with barracks for 100. Site is 3/4 miles east of Route 10 between Co…

https://museum.dmna.ny.gov/forts/paris