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Fort Wadsworth Fort Wadsworth is located in Staten Island and is deemed one of the oldest military forts in the history of the United States. Fort Wadsworth does not receive nearly enough recognition of as other forts simply because no actual battles have been fought there. However, it has rich history that dates all the …
Staten Island traditional oral history recalls the events of the initial response to the riots as a single noble defense, but in actuality had two outcomes. The main telling goes that citizens in Port Richmond, which was a ‘hop, skip, and jump’ away from Manhattan, pointed a cannon towards the bridge at Bodine’s Creek to …