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new york city 1976
aerial, over the battery
photograph by nick dewolf https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/7168017527
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Castle Williams @ Governors Island National Monument #castelwilliams #governorsisland #castleclinton #nationalpark #statusofliberty #manhattan #nationalpark #juniorranger #juniorrangerprogram #newyork #roadtripamerica #roadtripnewyork #dreamamerica #edreamamerica #dreamamericausa (at Governors Island) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjYp1_iPoT2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Castle Clinton #castleclinton #nationalpark #statusofliberty #manhattan #nationalpark #juniorranger #juniorrangerprogram #newyork #roadtripamerica #roadtripnewyork #dreamamerica #edreamamerica #dreamamericausa (at Castle Clinton National Monument) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjWIl-VP4VK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Happy (belated) 70th Anniversary Castle Clinton National Monument!
Featured here is a newspaper clipping titled "Fort Clinton: 1811-1949."
Castle Clinton, possibly the most famous national park you’ve never heard of, was designated a national monument on August 12, 1946.
Why “possibly the most famous park you’ve never heard of?” Because, if your ancestors were one of the 8 million or so immigrants or visitors who entered the United States through New York City between August 3, 1855 and April 18, 1890, they passed through this building, not Ellis Island.
As this clipping from the New York Times Magazine of May 8, 1949, illustrates, Castle Clinton has alternated between government facility and public entertainment venue over its history. It was originally built as one of four forts to defend the harbor of New York in advance of the War of 1812, and known as Southwest Battery. After being deeded to the City of New York, it became a restaurant and entertainment center, and re-named Castle Garden. Under that name, it then became New York’s immigrant processing station in 1855. Castle Garden was transformed yet again, this time into the New York Aquarium, after the federal government opened the immigration station on Ellis Island, in 1902. You yourself may have unknowingly passed through the restored Castle Clinton, as it currently serves as the ticket office and point of departure for the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island ferry.
Notice the low building with the dome in the center of the “Today” drawing? That is the Alexander Hamilton Customs House, home to the National Archives at New York.
Want to learn more about the Castle Clinton or other NPS sites? Check out our online catalog at:Â archives.gov/research/catalog/
and make an appointment to view our holdings at the National Archives at Philadelphia by calling (215) 305-2044 or emailing us at [email protected].
Today’s post was written by Leslie Simon, Archives Director at the National Archives at Philadelphia.
Citation: Clipping from the New York Times Magazine, May 8, 1949. Box 21; General Files of the Regional Director; Region Five - Northeast; RG 79, Records of the National Park Service; National Archives at Philadelphia (Item NAID: 40304881) (Series NAID: 36714217) (Record Entry ID: PH-3507).
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New York City Skyscraper from the Hudson River, 1903 by Thomas Edison and James Blair. Filmed from a moving boat, the film depicts the Hudson River (AKA North River) shoreline and the piers of lower Manhattan beginning around Fulton Street and extending to Castle Garden and Battery Park. It begins at one of the American Line piers (Pier 14 or 15, opposite Fulton Street) where an American Line steamer, either the "New York" or "Paris," is seen docked. The camera passes one of the Manhattan-to-New Jersey commuter ferries to Jersey City or Communipaw. Proceeding south, the distinct double towers of the Park Row, or Syndicate Building, erected in 1897-98, can be seen in the background. A coastal freighter is next, then Trinity Church appears, to the left of which stands the Surety Building, as a tug with a "C" on the stack passes in foreground. Several small steamboats come into view, and the B.T. Babbitt Soap factory at Pier 6 is seen, followed by the Pennsylvania Railroad piers (#5 & #4), with a group of docked railroad car floats, and the Lehigh Valley Railroad piers (#3 & #2), also with car floats. Next are the Bowling Green Building (rectangular, with facade to camera), the Whitehall Building (vertical, thin side to camera), followed by Pennsylvania Railroad Pier #1. Pier A (with a clock tower) is seen with the New York Harbor Police steam boat "Patrol" at its end. The Bowling Green Offices and the Produce Exchange at Bowling Green are visible in the background. The breakwater (sheltered landing) and the New York City Fireboat House appears and the distinctive round structure, Castle Garden, once a fort and immigrant station, but at the time of filming the City Aquarium, comes into view. The camera then pans east along the Battery Park promenade: the Barge Office (with tower) is visible in the distance [5804], and further out the Brooklyn shoreline with the grain elevators at Atlantic Avenue can be seen. #historicfilm #hudsonriver #newyorkcity #skyscraper #nychistory #historicarchitecture #parkrowbuilding #trinitychurch #batterypark #castleclinton #piera (at Hudson River)
August Friedrich Vollmer left his home in #grotzingen #germany alone, at the age of 16, for #NewYork. He arrived in Manhattan's #BatteryPark, through #CastleClinton, on July 14, 1882. August opened a German bakery on the #LowerEastSide, where he lived for 15 years before buying a parcel of land in Michigan and moving west with his family. This is his barn, still marked A. Vollmer. It is now operated by a distant relative, making it one of Michigan's #centennialfarms. New York+Michigan+our family for over 100 years. However, I'm fairly certain that my little branch has permanently moved east. @aansari1 @santetoyourhealth look what we saw today.