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Fort Hamilton is New York City's last active-duty military post. The fort was named for Alexander Hamilton. The first cornerstone was laid in 1825 and the first garrison flag raised in 1831. Fort Hamilton was the first National Guard training facility, opening its doors in 1839. The earliest recorded use of the location by the military was Narrow's Fort, a small battery that defended New York against the British on July 4th of 1776. Almost 50 years later, a fort was designed on these grounds by French Engineer Simon Bernard in 1825. He had previously served under Napoleon's Army until the emperor's defeat in 1815. The fort was considered a landward defense for Fort Lafayette, an island fortification in the Narrows between Brooklyn and Staten Island that was demolished during the building of the Verrazzano-Narrows in 1959. Fort Hamilton's sister was Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island. During the Civil War, the site included a Prisoner of War Camp and protected New York's Harbor from the Confederate Army. For the duration of World War I and World War II, the fort was used as a mobilization center. In the 1960s it hosted the United States Army Chaplain School, which trained ministers and their assistants for active duty. Remnants of the original fort on the site include Colonels Row, the Fort Hamilton Community Club, the Lee House, and the Harbor Defense Museum, all of which are on the National Register of Historic Places.

In October 1929, the prosperous Roaring Twenties crashed to an end. In the 1920s the Stock Market boomed. Shares in companies soared and millions of ordinary Americans invested their life savings, in the hopes of turning a profit. Some people even began taking out loans in order to invest in the Stock Market. While things looked good on the surface, the 1920s were plagued by deeper economic issues. Industrial production declined, unemployment crept upwards, and the agricultural sector struggled. The Stock Market bubble popped on what became known as "Black Tuesday." The sudden drop in value of stocks led to billions of dollars in lost revenue. Many banks shuttered as a result. This fueled panic among Americans who rushed to the banks to withdraw their lifesavings. Before the Great Depression, people's money in the bank was not insured. If the bank closed, people lost all of their savings! So many people went to the banks looking for their money and many banks simply did not have enough cash on hand to meet the demand. In a chain reaction of events, people lost their jobs, life's savings, and homes. From 1929 throughout the 1930s, the Great Depression wrecked havoc on the lives of Americans, and New Yorkers in particular. It would take the immense industrial demand of WWII and a dramatic increase in government regulation and spending to really get the United States out of this economic rut. During this decade of depression, Americans' lives transformed dramatically. New York Social Studies Scope and Sequence Standards 8.5b,c, & 11.7c. For Teachers: Great Depression Lesson Plan