1874 – Fort La Fayette, New York.—The location of the fog-bell was finally decided to be on the sea-wall of the fort on the east side of the Narrows. The bell has been erected and was put in operation on the first day of August. 1960 – Fort Lafayette was demolished in 1960, when the island it stood on was repurposed for the base of the Brooklyn tower of the Verrazano-Narrows bridge.

Keepers: John Graves (1873 – 1876), R.H. Hegeman (1876 – at least 1885), Andreas C. Thorning (1887 – 1894), Stephen H. Leonard (1896 – 1898), Detlef Lassen (1898 – 1909), Magnus Anderson (1909 – at least 1917).

The Brooklyn tower of the Verrazano-Narrows bridge now stands where Fort Lafayette stood.

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