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Thursday, March 17, 2016

Fort Pike, Sackets Harbor, NY-- Part 2: Named for General Zebulon Pike

From the New York State Military Museum.  There is also a map showing Sackets Harbor and its defenses.

Other forts built to protect Sackets Harbor:

Built along shore:  Fort Kentucky (Mud Fort),  Fort Tompkins, Fort Pike.

Forts built inland:  Fort Virginia, Fort Chauncey, Fort Stark

Fort Pike was a hastily prepared earthen work originally named Fort Volunteer at the northeast end of Sackets Harbor.  It was improved later to include breastworks and a blockhouse constructed adjacent to the original fort.  It was named for General Zebulon M. Pike.

The blockhouse was two stories and mounted 20 cannons and had barracks for 2,000.

--Brock-Perry

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