Fort Willem Hendrick: 1673, New York County, New York. What had been Fort Amsterdam (Dutch) 1626-1664 and Fort James (British) since 1664, was briefly reoccupied by the Dutch 1673-74 as Fort Willem Hendrick.
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In December of 1678, a team on an expedition, led by Pierre LaMotte, constructed a cabin surrounded by palisades near the foot of the Lewiston escarpment in Niagara County, New York. The fort was named Fort Hennepin, in honor of a Belgian priest and hist…
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In 1756, a stockade was built around the Herkimer Dutch Reformed Church, located on the south side of the Mohawk River, and across from the west side of Canada Creek in Herkimer County, New York. This fort was known as the Herkimer Church Fort. The stru…
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Old Fort Herkimer: 1740, Herkimer County, Mohawk. Fortified house of Johann Yost Herscheimer, South side of Mohawk River about opposite West Canada Creek. The two story house was 70 feet long by 40 feet wide with two foot thick stone walls and loopholes o…
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Camp Hero was constructed in 1941 in Montauk, Suffolk County, New York, on the eastern tip of Long Island. The United States Navy built docks, a seaplane hangar and a barracks which ultimately became the now closed-down Ocean Science Lab. Camp Hero cons…
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Plattsburgh Arsenal: 1810, Clinton County, Plattsburgh. Consisted of an arsenal, blockhouse, armory, hospital and cantonment area near the Fredenburgh Falls on the Saranac River, about 2 miles in from the lake, presently Broad Street. Destroyed in Battle …
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Plattsburgh Barracks: Sometime following the War of 1812, 40 log barracks were built within the pentagon complex formed by Forts Brown, Moreau, Scott, Gaines and Tompkins. Later three stone barracks were constructed on a military post South of this comple…
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