Fort Greene
by Robert Newman
Title
Fort Greene
Artist
Robert Newman
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Photograph - Photography
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Fort Greene Park is a landmark, cherished for its history, rolling landscape, trees, and monuments located in Brooklyn, NY. In 1776 American Major General Nathanael Greene supervised the construction of Fort Putnam on high ground that is now part of the park. During the Battle of Long Island, the Continental Army withdrew from the fort and retreated to Manhattan. The British held thousands of captives on prison ships anchored in the East River. Over 11,500 men and women died of overcrowding, contaminated water, starvation, and disease aboard the ships, and their bodies were hastily buried along the shore.
In the late 1800's Fort Green was redesigned by the famed architects who created Central Park in NYC. They designed a new entrance to a crypt to memorialize the the dead and build a wide granite stairway leading to a plaza on top of the hill. From its center rose a freestanding Doric column crowned by a bronze lantern; President-elect William Howard Taft attended the monument�s dedication in 1908.
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