Fort Clinton

New York County, New York City, 1814
Built on site of McGown's Pass Redoubt (1776) in Northeast corner of present Central Park. Near intersection of Fifth Avenue and East 107th Street. Postcard was labeled 1776 works but is not typical of Revolutionary War blockhouses and could not have existed in early 1900s when picture was taken due to the 1814 construction, so this was probably Fort Clinton which is now gone. Hill now has a Fort Clinton Monument. (Picture could also have been Blockhouse 1 reported nearby at 7th and 110th Street, but also 1814.)

Orange County, 1777
Fort Montgomery. Construction started in January. Guarded first of the famous chains, vicinity of current Bear Mountain bridge, on West bank of the Hudson River, South of chain, South of Popolopen Creek. Companion to Fort Montgomery, to the North of the creek, captured by the British 6 Oct 1777. Renamed Fort Vaughan, destroyed and abandoned end of Oct 1777. Site at intersection of US 6 and US 9 at Bear Mountain State Park. Partially obliterated by bridge approaches.

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Orange County, West Point, 1778
On Hudson River opposite Ft. Constitution. Originally named Fort Arnold, construction started in February and completed about Dec 1778. Renamed Fort Clinton in 1780 after Arnold's desertion to the British (The previous Clinton had been destroyed in Oct 1777). Secured the West end of the second West Point chain (Spring 1778 to Winter 1782).

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Saratoga County, Schuylerville, 1746
On Hudson River just South of present Schuylerville and the Fish Kill. Reconstruction of the destroyed Fort Saratoga. Attacked by French and Indians June 1747. Abandoned and burned fall of 1747. No further forts at this site, Fort Hardy was built in Schuylerville in 1755, a few miles to the north.

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