Fort Wadsworth
Address:
Gateway National Recreation Area
210 New York Avenue
Staten Island
718-354-4500
Category: Harbor Defenses
Open to the public.
Built: Fort Tompkins - 1807, Battery Weed (aka Fort Richmond) - 1860, Fort Wadsworth - 1900
Owner: National Park Service
Designation: National Historic Landmark, Battery Weed - NYC Landmark
Description: A complex of forts and batteries including Battery Weed and Fort Tomkins, incorporated into Fort Wadsworth. Battery Weed was the oldest continuously manned military installation in the country and one of the most dominent, first fortified by the Dutch in 1636, active during the Revolutionary War, enlarged for the War of 1812 and up until the Navy left in 1994.
