From Wikipedia.
Fort Winthrop was started in 1808 and named Fort Warren originally until 1834 when it was renamed Fort Winthrop for John Winthrop, an early governor and leader of the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony.
It was built on Governors Island which the Winthrop family owned from 1632 to 1808. In 1808, as relations with England worsened, the U.S. government acquired land in the center of it to build a fort.
Construction on the fort took place between 1808 to 1812. It was an earthen fort in the form of an eight-pointed star. Sylvanus Thayer, later a famous West Point (USMA) superintendent, was in charge of the fort's construction.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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