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In 1778, a chain was stretched from West Point, N.Y., to Constitution Island to close the Hudson River against the British fleet. It was made at the Sterling Iron Works by Peter Townsend and was later presented to the Coast Guard Academy by his great-granddaughter Mary Alice Townsend Sackett and her son Austen Townsend Sackett.
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