Category:Fort Lafayette (New York)

**Fort Lafayette**
	former island fortification in the Narrows of New York Harbor
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Instance of	fortress island;
Named after	Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1823–);
Location	United States of America;
Commissioned by	United States Army Corps of Engineers;
Has use	prison (1861–1866); ammunition dump (1898–1946); coastal defence and fortification (1812–1861);
Inception	1812;
Dissolved, abolished or demolished date	1960;
	40° 36′ 30″ N, 74° 02′ 19″ W
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Fort Lafayette was an island coastal fortification in the Narrows of New York Harbor, built offshore from Fort Hamilton at the southern tip of what is now Bay Ridge in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The fort was built upon a natural island known as Hendrick's Reef.

Construction on the fort began during the War of 1812 and was finally completed in 1818, the fort originally named Fort Diamond was renamed in 1825 to celebrate the Marquis de La Fayette, a hero of the American Revolution who was returning to his native France after his year-long grand tour of the United States.

Construction of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge caused the fort's destruction in 1960; the Brooklyn-side bridge pillars now occupy the fort's former foundation site.

Media in category "Fort Lafayette (New York)"

The following 14 files are in this category, out of 14 total.

Armenia (steamboat) by Jacobsen.jpg 512 × 310; 64 KB
Fort Lafayette Brooklyn.jpg 446 × 344; 32 KB
Fort Lafayette, Long Island, N.Y. LCCN98502263 (cropped).jpg 851 × 506; 58 KB
Fort Lafayette, Long Island, N.Y. LCCN98502263.jpg 1,024 × 826; 93 KB
Fort Lafayette, Long Island, N.Y. LCCN98502263.tif 4,096 × 3,302; 12.9 MB
Fort Layfayette 1882.jpg 421 × 246; 39 KB
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Harper's weekly (1865) (14741695026).jpg 2,044 × 2,336; 1.13 MB
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Patriotic Souvenir Pies - "The Union Forts" (a)., ca. 1864 (5430755995).jpg 800 × 793; 306 KB
The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war (1919) (14595327968).jpg 2,208 × 1,202; 497 KB
The Sandbagger 'Orient' off Owl's Head, Brooklyn, circa 1885 by William Gay Yorke.jpg 547 × 420; 58 KB
Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor, by Deloss Barnum.jpg 2,576 × 1,251; 724 KB
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