. Treat's illustrated New York, Philadelphia and surroundings . Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor. Located 200 yards from the Long Island shore at the .Narrows. ThisORTIFICATION is chiefly remarkable as hav-ing been a house of detention for politicalprisoners during the late civil war. It cost,when completed, $350,000, and mountedseventy-throe heavy guns, and was for manyyears our most formidable defense from anattack through tho water gateway to themetropolis. Its internal works were con-sumed by fire in Decembor, 1SG8, leavingonly tho naked walls. It is the design ofthe government to rebuild i
. Treat's illustrated New York, Philadelphia and surroundings . Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor. Located 200 yards from the Long Island shore at the .Narrows. ThisORTIFICATION is chiefly remarkable as hav-ing been a house of detention for politicalprisoners during the late civil war. It cost,when completed, $350,000, and mountedseventy-throe heavy guns, and was for manyyears our most formidable defense from anattack through tho water gateway to themetropolis. Its internal works were con-sumed by fire in Decembor, 1SG8, leavingonly tho naked walls. It is the design ofthe government to rebuild it on a greatlyimproved scale, and have it fully equipped with the most approvedarmament of modern
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