Fort Clinton (Central Park)

Fort Clinton was a stone-and-earthworks fortification on an elevation within what is now Central Park in New York City.

According to maps of the time, Fort Clinton was the easternmost of a connected series of forts, connected to Nutter's Battery on the west by earthworks and a gatehouse over the Old Post Road at the bottom of McGowan's Pass.

[3][4] The fort was named after DeWitt Clinton, a mayor of New York City.

[5] Previously, during the American Revolution, the site had been a redoubt used by British and Hessian soldiers to protect McGowan's Pass during their occupation of New York City from 1776 to 1783.

A memorial consisting of a commemorative plaque and two cannons surrounded by benches and a flagpole now occupies the site.