{"nrhp_refnum":"73001247","name":"Fort Brewerton","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"State and Lansing Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brewerton","county":"Oswego County","state":"NY","lat":43.24219195400008,"lon":-76.14116323199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-03-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Military"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Site of Fort Brewerton, a British log and earthwork fort built in fall 1759 at the west end of Oneida Lake, on the Oneida River in Brewerton, Oswego County, New York. It occupies about one acre owned by the State of New York.","why_significant":"The site represents the importance of the Mohawk-Oneida-Oswego waterways linking Albany and Fort Ontario during the French and Indian War. It is regarded as an archeological site likely holding Indian artifacts and items from its fort and later trading post use. Its abandonment in the 1760s illustrates that the French no longer threatened British dominance in North America.","narrative":"Fort Brewerton was a British military post on the Oneida River near the western end of Oneida Lake, built in the fall of 1759 during the French and Indian War. It was an eight-pointed star of earth walls and log palisades, with four blockhouses, storage buildings, wells and a moat. Soldiers from Fort Ontario and Fort Stanwix built it to guard the water route between those two posts. The fort was named for Captain George Brewerton Jr. It served as a supply depot and shelter for troops and was never attacked. After the war it was largely abandoned, briefly reoccupied in 1763 during Pontiac's War, and dismantled by about 1764. It later served as a trading post. Today the one-acre grassy site shows only faint traces of the ditch and parapet, marked by maples planted before 1906. Relic hunters looted it in the 1800s, and a small excavation took place in 1965-66. The State of New York bought the land in 1906 and maintains it.","period_of_significance":"1759-1764","architect_builder":"Built by detachments of soldiers from Fort Ontario and Fort Stanwix; plans ordered by General Amherst from Lt. Col. James Montresor, Director of Engineers","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition fair and altered; only faint earthwork outlines remain. Maintained by the State of New York as a State Historic Site, with a flag pole and commemorative stone gates.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.734773-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/73001247.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320827","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Brewerton","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5470850"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/oswego-county/fort-brewerton-73001247/"}