Wallabout Bay, Brooklyn, New York
Wallabout Bay, Brooklyn, New York
WALLABOUT BAY, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. The site of what would become the New York Naval Shipyard, this is where the Jersey and other British prison ships were moored and where the British dumped the bodies of thousands of dead prisoners. Nathanael Greene oversaw the construction of Fort Putnam, which overlooks the bay, in 1776.
SEE ALSO Prisons and Prison Ships.
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