1866 engraving, Within Fort Maxey.
The legends indicate that an inmate of the asylum built a fort to defend the island against a British invasion that he feared. At the Blackwell's Island Lunatic Asylum, where Nellie Bly faked insanity in 1887 and later published Ten Days in a Mad-House.
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