Fort Ontario: Guardian of the North (Images of America) - Softcover

Reed, George A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738502847 ISBN 13: 9780738502847

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC), 1999

Synopsis

Join authors George and Carol Reed as they recount the history of Fort Ontario through vintage images in this pictorial history.

In the earliest days when lakes, streams, and rivers served as highways through the wilderness, the nation that ruled the mouth of the Oswego River dominated North America. The convergence of the Oswego and Lake Ontario was a key point on the most navigable water route from the east into the interior of the continent. It was there that Fort Ontario was built. Just as quickly, however, the fort was destroyed, as competing armies seized control of this valuable point. Time after time the fort was rebuilt, and over the years it acquired a history as unique as its location. Fort Ontario: Guardian of the North is the first history of this remarkable and resilient fort, credited with being the oldest continuously garrisoned post in the United States. The book chronicles the many transformations of Fort Ontario from the time it was built in 1755 up to its present-day status as a New York State Historic Site. With paintings, maps, photographs, and informative text, the book brings back the fort's years as a company post, its World War I role as a major army hospital, and its World War II years as a shelter for Jews fleeing the Holocaust--the only wartime refugee shelter in the history of the United States.

About this title

About the Author

Coauthor George A. Reed is a former member of the Fort Ontario Guard and executive director of Friends of History in Fulton, N. Y., Inc. He and his wife, educator and photographer Carol Reed, chose photographs and art from the collection of the Fort Ontario Historic Site, and to these they added some of their own works. The result is a rich pictorial tour that does service to the fort and to history.

Edition details

• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0738502847
• ISBN 13: 9780738502847
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128