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Manhattan: Fort Washington Park - [Lighthouse.]

Fort Washington Park: A View showing Manhattan's only lighthouse nestling beneath the George Washington Bridge. This sets on a promontory formerly known as Jeffery's Hook. A moon shaped battery, built here in 1775, overlooked the spot where ships were sunk to obstruct the British fleet during the American
Revolution.
October 21, 1938
George D. Chinn

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