Fort Wadsworth (1)

Fort Wadsworth (1) (1865-1994) - A New York Coastal Fort first established as Fort Richmond after the War of 1812 and renamed 7 Nov 1865 after Bvt. Brig. Gen. James Wadsworth who was killed in May of 1864 at the Battle of the Wilderness. Deactivated in 1994.

Fort Wadsworth, Battery Weed

Fort Wadsworth (1) History

Established in 1865 by renaming Fort Richmond. The Fort was expanded during the Endicott Period with the addition of several coastal batteries and the consolidation, in 1902, of all Staten Island military fortifications including Fort Tompkins into Fort Wadsworth.

Was a part of the Harbor Defense of Southern New York.

Endicott Period

Between 1895 and 1904 six new Endicott Period batteries were built and several of the existing batteries were upgrade to Endicott Period standards and many of them were renamed in the process.

Fort Wadsworth Endicott Period Battery (edit list)

Battery Click on Battery links below	No.	Caliber	Type Mount	Service Years	Battery Cost	Notes
Battery Ayres	2	12"	Disappearing	1900-1901-1901-1942	$ 87,000	Part buried
Battery Dix	2	12"	Disappearing	1900-1902-1904-1944	$ 100,000
Battery Hudson	2	12"	Disappearing	1898-1899-1899-1942	$ 99,463	Part buried
Battery Richmond	2	12"	Disappearing	1898-1899-1899-1942	$ 96,992	Part buried
Battery Barry	2	10"	Disappearing	1897-1899-1899-1918	$ 61,499
Battery Upton	2	10"	Disappearing	189?-1895-1897-1942	$ 61,499	Part buried
Battery Duane	5	8"	Disappearing	1895-1897-1897-1915	$ 267,513	Magazines removed One emplacement removed
Battery Mills (2)	2	6"	Disappearing	1899-1900-1900-1943	$ 52,700	Both emplacements part buried One gun to Sandy Hook Proving Ground 1918
Battery Barbour	2 2	6" 4.7"	Armstrong Armstrong	1898-1898-1898-1920 1898-1898-1898-1920	$ 9,165	One emplacement buried One emplacement buried One emplacement part buried
Battery Turnbull	6	3"	Pedestal	1902-1903-1903-1944	$ 30,000
Battery Bacon	2	3"	Masking Parapet	1899-1899-1899-1918	$ 4,000
Battery Catlin	6	3"	Pedestal	1902-1904-1904-1942	$ 37,509
Source: CDSG

Post World War I

Fort Wadsworth Plan 1921

World War II

Fort Wadsworth World War II Battery (edit list)

Battery Click on Battery links below	No.	Caliber	Type Mount	Service Years	Battery Cost	Notes
Battery 115	2	16"	Casemated Barbette	Not built	$ ?
Battery 218	2	6"	SBC	1942-1943-1944-1958	$ 203,277	Not Armed
Battery New Turnbull	4	3"	Pedestal	1942-1946	$ ?	Covered
Battery AMTB 11 - Miller Field	2 2	90 mm 90 mm	Fixed Pedestal Mobile	1943-1946	$ ?
Battery AMTB 12 - Swinburne Island	2	90 mm	Fixed Pedestal	1943-1946	$ ?
Source: CDSG

Current Status

Now a part of part of Gateway National Recreation Area. No period guns or carriages in place.

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Location: 210 New York Ave., Staten Island, New York. Maps & Images Lat: 40.605506 Long: -74.054163 Multi Maps from ACME Maps from Bing Maps from Google Elevation: '

Sources:

• Roberts, Robert B., Encyclopedia of Historic Forts: The Military, Pioneer, and Trading Posts of the United States, Macmillan, New York, 1988, 10th printing, ISBN 0-02-926880-X, page 587-589
• Wikipedia - Fort Wadsworth
• NorthAmericanForts.com
• Coast Defense Study Group, CDSG Press, CDSG Digital Library

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