Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1901 — The Central Park Blockhouse. [ARTICLE]

The Central Park Blockhouse.

It has all along been the popular impression that the blockhouse in Central Park was one of a chain of five blockhouses which extended across the city and were used by the British soldiers in the British occupation of the city after the battle of Long Island. The fact was never before disputed until Washington's Birthday, when the flag was being raised over the ancient landmark. W. L. Ferguson, who has delved into the subject and was pres?nt at the ceremony, said that the present building was erected in the War of 1812 as a powder storehouse. A building had been erected in the Revolutionary War on the spot where the present building stands, but was used only as an observatory or “lookout” by the enemy, and had been subsequently destroyed.—New York Sun.