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43.4553

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-76.5105

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"Fort Ontario" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/P00019134, (accessed April 5, 2025).

KYR-0001-003-0051

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Union fort constructed on Lake Ontario at the mouth of the Oswego River between 1839 and 1844.

"Oswego, New York," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed January 3, 2023, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/.
"Fort Ontario" National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form, Entry Number 70.12.36.0013.
John R. Weaver II, A Legacy in Brick and Stone: American Coastal Defense Forts of the Third System, 1816-1867, (McLean, Virginia: Redoubt Press, 2018), 59, 78.

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