13 Facts About Fort Wadsworth

Fort Wadsworth is a former United States military installation on Staten Island in New York City, situated on The Narrows which divide New York Bay into Upper and Lower halves, a natural point for defense of the Upper Bay and Manhattan beyond.

Fort Wadsworth is part of the Staten Island Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area, maintained by the National Park Service.

Fort Wadsworth Richmond was initially semicircular while Fort Wadsworth Tompkins was a regular pentagon with circular bastions, both very different from their Third System replacements.

Fort Wadsworth Richmond was named for Richmond County, in which Staten Island is located.

Fort Wadsworth Morton was possibly named for Major General Jacob Morton, commander of the New York state militia in the War of 1812.

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Fort Wadsworth Hudson was named for Henry Hudson, a British-born explorer for the Dutch East India Company who explored the river named for him.

Fort Wadsworth Richmond had one landward front and three seacoast fronts, with an unusual four tiers of cannon totaling 116 guns to seaward, plus 24 flank howitzers on the landward front.

Fort Wadsworth Tompkins provided the bulk of the landward defense in the area, with one seaward and four landward fronts.

At Fort Wadsworth, this included improvements to the batteries built during the Civil War, along with rebuilding Battery Hudson for new guns and a new mortar battery near Fort Tompkins that was never armed.

From 1948 to 1952 Fort Wadsworth was the Headquarters of the 102nd Antiaircraft Artillery Brigade for the air defense of New York City.

The entire Fort Wadsworth complex was listed in the National Register in 2022.

Name "Fort Wadsworth" is sometimes used to denote the residential neighborhood surrounding the former fort, the neighborhood south of Rosebank, west of Shore Acres and north of South Beach.

Fort Wadsworth served as the setting for the final scene of the movie.