Fort Stanwix
Fort Stanwix was a colonial fort in present-day Rome, New York. Its construction commenced on August 26, 1758, under the direction of British General John Stanwix, but was not completed until about 1762.- Type: Fort
- Description: fort
- Address: nrhp, Rome, NY 13440
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Capitol Theatre and Rome station.
Capitol Theatre
Movie theater
The Capitol Theatre is a theatre operating in Rome, New York. It opened December 10, 1928 as part of the Kallet chain of movie houses, presenting first run films until it closed in 1974. Capitol Theatre is situated 1,400 feet northwest of Fort Stanwix.
Rome station
Railway station
Photo: Brian Boucheron, CC BY 2.0.
Rome station is a Neoclassical train station served by Amtrak. It is located on 6599 Martin Street in Rome, New York between the NY 26-49-69 bridge and Mill Road south of the Erie Canal. Rome station is situated 1 mile south of Fort Stanwix.
Mohawk Correctional Facility
Prison
Mohawk Correctional Facility is a prison for men in Rome, Oneida County, New York, US, owned and operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. Mohawk Correctional Facility is situated 2½ miles southwest of Fort Stanwix.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rome and Verona Mills.
Rome
Photo: Calvin Beale, Public domain.
Rome is a city in Oneida County, New York, United States, located in the central part of the state. The population was 32,127 at the 2020 census. Rome is one of two principal cities in the Utica–Rome Metropolitan Statistical Area, which lies in the "Leatherstocking Country" made famous by James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, set in frontier days before the American Revolutionary War.
Verona Mills
Hamlet
Verona Mills is a hamlet in Oneida County, New York, United States. On April 26, 2011, a tornado with 100 mph winds associated with the 2011 Super Outbreak hit a wooded area near Verona Mills, near New York State Route 49, uprooting trees and snapping a power pole before replacing it. Verona Mills is situated 5 miles west of Fort Stanwix.
Lake Delta
Village
Lake Delta is a hamlet located in the Town of Lee in Oneida County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, Lake Delta had a population of 2,757. The hamlet is named after, and located on, the western shore of the Delta Reservoir. Lake Delta is situated 6 miles north of Fort Stanwix.
Fort Stanwix
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Oneida, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.21058° or 43° 12′ 38″ northLongitude
-75.45528° or 75° 27′ 19″ westInception
1758Operator
United States National Park ServiceOpen location code
87M66G6V+6VOpenStreetMap ID
way 120584006OpenStreetMap feature
historic=fortWikidata ID
Q566356
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Swedish—“Fort Stanwix” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Beleg van Fort Stanwix”
- Dutch: “Fort Stanwix National Monument”
- Dutch: “Fort Stanwix”
- Egyptian Arabic: “حصن ستانويكس”
- French: “fort Stanwix”
- French: “Fort Stanwix”
- German: “Fort Stanwix National Monument”
- German: “Fort Stanwix”
- Hebrew: “מבצר סטנוויקס”
- Italian: “Fort Stanwix”
- Korean: “스탠윅스 요새”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fort Schuyler”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fort Stanwix”
- Norwegian: “Fort Stanwix”
- Slovenian: “Fort Stanwix”
- Spanish: “Fuerte Stanwix”
- Swedish: “Fort Stanwix nationalmonument”
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