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unusual facts about Fort Constitution



Citizens' Hall

(The Artillery began organizing the event in the 1930s.) The post also procured a cannon which had been used at Fort Constitution in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, during the Civil War.

Elon J. Farnsworth

Battery Farnsworth, a coastal defense built between 1897 and 1899 near Fort Constitution at New Castle, New Hampshire, was named in his honor.

William A. Winder

Windner was on duty at Newport Barracks, Kentucky, from April 30 to September 28, 1848; joined regiment October 14, 1848; served at Fort Constitution, New Hampshire, to September 24, 1849; and in Florida to August 24, 1850.


see also

Fort Lee Historic Park

Fort Lee, originally Fort Constitution, was an American Revolutionary War fort located on the crest of the Hudson Palisades in what was then Hackensack Township, New Jersey opposite Fort Washington at the northern end of Manhattan Island.