The South Battery
1790 1826
Erected during the War of 1812 to guard Buttermilk Channel. Used as a barracks for the fife and drum corps of the garrison from 1836 until the first officers’ mess was established here June 20, 1879.
Reorganized as the Officers’ Club
February 3, 1881
This tablet
presented December 1, 1951 by
the Veteran Corps of Artillery, S.N.Y.
constituting
The Society of the War of 1812
Colonel Francis F. Steers
Commandant – President
Marker is on Evans Road, on the right when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
