. Life and reminiscences from birth to manhood of Wm. G. Johnston . s fort. This was the last use for which it was em-ployed ; already, on August 2nd of that year, an Act ofCongress had been passed for its demolition, and for thesale of the property upon which it stood. I may now, leaping over a chasm of well-nigh a cen-tury, add that in 1884 the writer erected the building inwhich his business is conducted (on the corner of PennAvenue and Ninth Street), upon the site of the south-east bastion of this fort, and that among the title-deedshanded down to him are two bearing the signatures ofJames
. Life and reminiscences from birth to manhood of Wm. G. Johnston . s fort. This was the last use for which it was em-ployed ; already, on August 2nd of that year, an Act ofCongress had been passed for its demolition, and for thesale of the property upon which it stood. I may now, leaping over a chasm of well-nigh a cen-tury, add that in 1884 the writer erected the building inwhich his business is conducted (on the corner of PennAvenue and Ninth Street), upon the site of the south-east bastion of this fort, and that among the title-deedshanded down to him are two bearing the signatures ofJames Madison, President of the United States, andJames Monroe, Secretary of State, for two of the lots,which as shown therein were sold at public sale on Sep-tember 30, 1815, by authority of Congress. Prior tothis the fort had been demolished. A portion of theproperty belonging to the government, extending fromPenn Street to the river, was reserved. On this the two- • This was one of the five fighting Butlers, two others of whomare referred to on a subsequent GJiRDEJ^^ Amap of FOFCr FWrETTE F^efe rer»ee-SA Officers Ba^rra^cks C ANJvjg Az. irve D Store E Gud^rd r Dun^Gorx G Artijicer^s 6hop H BlocK House THE SCALE II NT T ^ Recently the writer obtained from the files of the War Department, Washington, a full-size copy of theoriginal plan of this fort, from which the above reduced engraving was made. The plan has not previouslyappeared in print. First Iron Foundries in the West. 29 story brick building at the corner of Garrison Alley waserected, which has long been used as a recruiting station,doing service in this way both for the Mexican war, andour Civil war. The writer was familiar with it from hisearliest boyhood, and remembers calling with his fatherat that time upon an army captain of our name stationedhere, whose residence was in an adjoining Fayette Street and Garrison Alley, in that neigh-borhood, derive their names from the fort. A few years
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