Suffolk BOMARC Base: 1957, Suffolk County, Westhampton Beach. Site of 1st BOMARC Missile Interceptor Station. The BOMARC A was a Surface-to-Air Cruise Missile with a length of 45 feet, 3 inches and a wingspan of 18 feet, 2 inches. It's range was 230 miles…
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Suffolk County Air Force Base: 1950, Suffolk County, Westhampton Beach. USAF Interceptor base, picking up air defense of Metropolitan NY from Mitchel Field until that mission was transferred to McGuire AFB, NJ. Then became 1st BOMARC Missle Interceptor St…
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Swart's Fort: 1776, Schenectady County, Three miles west of Scotia, at Tinker Hill. A blockhouse constructed by CPT Teunis Swart. Brick house surrounded by Palisade and armed with swivel Cannon piece. Revolutionary war period.
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Fort Swift: 1812, Kings County, Brooklyn. Built on site of former Fort Corkscrew (1776) by General Joseph G. Swift. Site bordered by Atlantic Avenue, Court, Pacific, and Clinton Streets.
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Swift's Battery: 1812-14, Erie County, Buffalo. One of a series of batteries on the Niagara River in Buffalo. Located North of Dudley's Battery that was just North of Ferry Street. No description of guns mounted. Further North at the mouth of the Conjaqua…
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archives holdings. Begun in 1863 as the Bureau of Military Statistics unde… designed by Isaac Perry and constructed in 1889… was popular in upstate New York in the late 1800
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