British Soldier’s Barracks

The British Army maintained a military presence in New York from 1640 to 1783. During the American Revolution, the British built barracks in this vicinity and used the land now occupied by City Hall Park for military exercises and executions.

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Military Stables and Barracks

This long building was used as military stables during the Revolution. On opposite side of street, stood the Barracks where British and Hessians were imprisoned during that period.

Marker is on N. Duke Street, on the left when traveling south.

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Soldiers’ Barracks

1798

Report from the Fort

21 January 1802 • Major J. J. Ulrich Rivardi

One side of brick barracks, 117 feet long, 28 wide and very divided into seven rooms, five of which could accommodate 25 men…the other side is ...

Old Barracks

Built in 1758 for British troops of the French and Indian War. Hessians were quartered here before the Battle of Trenton.

Marker is on Barrack Street just from Lafayette Street, on the right when traveling south.

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Officers' Quarters, Drum Barracks, 1862-1868

"Drum Barracks, Civil War Period"

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Officers’ Quarters

1862 * Drum Barracks * 1868

Supply Depot, Department of

the Southwest, U.S. Army.

In memory of the historic past of this

building and the importance of its

association with early ...

Hessian Barracks - Witness to History

1777 Built at direction of Maryland General Assembly

1778-79 Quartered Hessian and Convention prisoners captured at Bennington and Saratoga

1782 Quartered Hessian and Bayreuth Yager Regiments following Cornwallis' surrender

1799 Quartered French sailors of the L'Surgent captured by U.S.S. Constellation

1802-03 Served as staging ...

These Barracks

1776 - 1814

These Barracks

Mark the course of the struggle

for American Independence

Built in 1777 by the British and Hessian prisoners of the Revolutionary War, here were detained those taken at the Battles of Saratoga, Trenton, and Yorktown, also the French prisoners ...

Enlisted Men's Barracks

Long rectangular foundations are all that remain of the two-story brick soldiers' barracks that stood here from 1809, when Fort Moultrie III was new, until Confederates razed it in 1863 to eliminate the danger from flying debris should the building ...

Newport Barracks

Winter Quarters Ablaze

The 7th North Carolina Infantry built Newport Barracks here as a set of log winter quarters in 1861-1862. Union soldiers later took possession and added a hospital, headquarters, stables, storehouses, earthworks to protect the complex, and an earthen ...

Newport Barracks

Winter Quarters Ablaze

The 7th North Carolina Infantry built Newport Barracks here as a set of log winter quarters in 1861-1862. Union soldiers later took possession and added a hospital, headquarters, stables, storehouses, earthworks to protect the complex, and an earthen ...