Fort Wadsworth
This fort was the longest continually-manned military installation in the United States, until 1994. During the Second World War it was a coastal artillery battery to defend New York Harbor.
Of the fort, Battery Weed and some smaller structures remained.
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Source
- Text: Fedor de Vries
- Photos: Wikimedia Commons
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