Building 137, Fort Wadsworth, New York, New York. County/parish: Richmond.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 30, 1974. NRIS 74001300.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
Fort Tompkins is a fort on Staten Island in New York City, within what is now Fort Wadsworth at the Narrows. Fort Tompkins (and its predecessor of the same name) guarded the landward approaches to other forts in the area from 1808 through circa 1898. The current fort was built 1847–1861, and was operational as a fort until superseded by new defenses circa 1898. It is now part of the Gateway National Recreation Area. It is the last remaining of four forts in New York State named Fort Tompkins.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321347