Purchase of Governors Island Monument

Governors Island was purchased three hundred years earlier by Wouter van Twiller, Director General of New Netherlands, from Cakapeteyno and Pehiwas of the Manahatas Tribe. It was the birthplace of American military tactics that won for England a great dominion, the sole safeguard of Washington's retirement from Long Island in 1776, and an early guardian of New York City. It later served as a mobilization point in the Mexican, Civil and Spanish-American Wars and as a supply base during the World War.

New York, New York · United States