Nutter's Battery
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Nutter's Battery was an 1814 earth-and-wood fortification within what is now Central Park, Manhattan, New York City. The battery was located in the North Woods of Central Park, near Harlem Meer. A 1905 history of the area says that it was on the line of Sixth Avenue (Lenox Avenue), between 109th and 110th Streets. Its name came from , who owned the surrounding property.[2]
According to maps and illustrations of the time, the Battery was a redoubt connected to Fort Fish, by earthworks along the Old Post Road. At the line of 107th Street and Sixth Avenue (Lenox Avenue), the earthworks led to a gatehouse in the road at McGowan's Pass. From there the earthworks continued up a rocky hill to Fort Clinton.[3]
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- ^ Lossing, Benson (1868). The Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812. Harper & Brothers, Publishers. p. 972.
- ^ Edward Hagaman Hall, McGown's Pass and Vicinity, p. 36. 1905.
- ^ Brief description from official Central Park site.
Coordinates: 40°47′53″N 73°57′07″W / 40.798°N 73.952°W
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