| Fort DuPont Contributor(s): MacKie, Brendan (Author), Morrill, Peter K. (Author), Lee, Laura M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0738588075 ISBN-13: 9780738588070 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC) OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa) - History | Military - United States |
| Dewey: 975.102 |
| LCCN: 2011927486 |
| Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing) |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 6.47" W x 9.16" (0.44 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Delaware |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Once a place of war, then a place of health, and finally, preservation, Fort DuPont has had a long and interesting history. Fort DuPont is named in honor of Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont and located on the Reeden Point tract, land initially granted to Henry Ward in 1675. The first fortification built was the Ten Gun Battery during the Civil War, a heavily armed earthwork fortification dedicated to protecting the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal--as Sgt. Bishop Crumrine wrote in 1864, "These guns command the channel and could blow to atoms any vessel rash enough to attempt to pass." In the decades to follow, the battery at Delaware City was gradually modernized into a formidable military post that remained active through World War II. Declared surplus in post-war peacetime, the site reopened in 1948 as the Governor Bacon Health Center, and by 1996, over 300 acres were reestablished as Fort DuPont State Park. |
Contributor Bio(s): MacKie, Brendan: - Brendan Mackie is a photojournalist with the 101st Public Affairs Detachment and a member of the Coast Defense Study Group. Peter K. Morrill has a degree in historic preservation from the College of Charleston and serves as a historical interpreter at Fort DuPont State Park. Laura M. Lee is interpretive program manager and historian at Fort DuPont State Park. Images of America: Fort DuPont includes photographs from various public and private collections as well as personal stories by the soldiers and civilians who were actually there. |