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Fort Ontario

Fort Ontario is an American historic bastion fort situated by the in . It is owned by the state of New York and operated as a museum known as Fort Ontario State Historic Site.
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  • Type: Park
  • Description: state historic site of New York, United States
  • Also known as: “Fort Ontario State Historic Site”
  • Address: 1 East 4th Street, Oswego, NY 13126

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter Museum and H. Lee White Marine Museum.

Museum
Photo: Jojomojopete, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a museum in that tells the story of 982 mainly Jewish refugees who fled Europe in the U.S. is situated 840 feet southeast of Fort Ontario.

Museum
Photo: Doncram, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The H. Lee White Maritime Museum is located in . It was founded in 1982 by Rosemary Sinnett Nesbitt, a local professor and the City of Oswego Historian. is situated 2,700 feet west of Fort Ontario.

Museum
Photo: KLOTZ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Museum is a historic home located at in . It is constructed primarily of brick and built in two stages. is situated 3,800 feet south of Fort Ontario.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include SUNY Oswego and Scriba.

Locality
State University of New York at Oswego is a public university in , United States. It has a total student population of 6,756 and the campus size is 700 acres. is situated 2 miles southwest of Fort Ontario.

Village
is a town in , , United States. The population was 6,840 at the 2010 census. The town is named after landowner George . is situated 4 miles east of Fort Ontario.

Fort Ontario

Latitude
43.46571° or 43° 27′ 57″ north
Longitude
-76.50567° or 76° 30′ 20″ west
Operator
New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
Open location code
87M5FF8V+7P
Open­Street­Map ID
way 846795800
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­park
Wiki­data ID
Q3077968
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Polish—“Fort Ontario” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Fort Ontario”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “حصن اونتاريو”
  • French: “fort Ontario”
  • French: “Fort Ontario”
  • Polish: “Fort Ontario”

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Highlights include McCrobie Field and Losurdo Field.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Fort Ontario”. Photo: AdMeskens, CC BY-SA 3.0.