Anna B. Warner Memorial Garden

Constitution Island was the home of Susan and Anna Warner from 1836 – 1915. It was presented to the United States Military Academy by Miss Anna Warner and Mrs. Russell Sage.

Marker erected in 1968 by the

Constitution Island ...

Redoubt 5

During the period when Constitution Island supplemented the major West Point fortifications, the Continental Army sought to protect the Great Chain and river batteries from land attack. Placed on the highest ground of the then treeless island, three redoubts ...

Hill Cliff Battery

The Revolutionary Army fortified this hill in 1776 to provide more firepower down river and to maintain communication between Gravel Hill Battery to the east and the Fort Constitution area to the west. Hill Cliff Battery mounted from three ...

Redoubt 7

Built in 1778 on the island’s highest ground, Redoubt 7 blocked the western land approach to the Great Chain’s anchor on Constitution Island. In constructing the redoubt’s stone rampart, the Army used a large granite outcropping as part of ...

Romans’ Battery

Intended as the west curtain of the never-completed Fort Constitution, “the . . . battery is a straight line constructed by Mr. Romans, at very great expense; it has fifteen embrasures, which face the river at a right angle, ...

Rebecca Hawkins Crockett

Born in Maryland and emigrating with her husband to east Tennessee, David Crockett's mother followed her son through several residences in middle Tennessee before coming to live with a daughter about five miles west. At her death she was buried ...

Marine Battery

Built in early 1776, Marine Battery was destroyed in October 1777. The following year the battery was partially reconstructed on the surviving rampart to protect the Great Chain, which was probably anchored in the cove below.

This 10 foot ...

Grice Marine Laboratory

The George D. Grice

Marine Biological

Laboratory

In grateful appreciation

of his forsight and tireless

efforts which resulted in the

establishment of this center

for the study of and research

in Marine Biology, the

Trustees of the College of

Charleston ...

Bartlett Tucker Family Cemetery

Forty graves in this cemetery

containing the remains of

Bartlett Tucker (1874-1861)

and members of his family

were relocated to this spot

from 0.22 acres s/w known as

Tract No. 1300 C-2 in 1983.

There were no identifiable marked

graves. The Tucker family moved

from this area in December ...

The Cabell House

Dedicated to the memory

of

William Henry Cabell

Cadet First Sergeant, Co. D.

VMI Class of 1865

killed at the

Battle of New Market

May 15, 1864

Established by his descendants

Marker is at the intersection of Letcher Avenue and Maiden Lane, on the left when traveling east on ...