Fort Michie, Military coastal defense fort on Great Gull Island, United States
Fort Michie is a former coastal defense installation on Great Gull Island in Long Island Sound, New York. The island holds several gun batteries and fortified structures placed along its shoreline to monitor and control the surrounding waters.
The fort was built between 1897 and 1908 as part of the Endicott Program, a national effort to modernize coastal defenses. In 1949, the American Museum of Natural History took over the island and turned it into a research station.
The fort is named after First Lieutenant Dennis Michie, who organized the first Army-Navy football game at West Point. That connection makes the site part of a sporting tradition still celebrated across the country today.
Access to the island is controlled by the research center that now runs the site, so entry is not open to the general public. Anyone hoping to visit should reach out well in advance to check whether access is possible.
Battery J.M.K. Davis once held one of the most powerful artillery pieces in the country during the 1920s. At the time, it was considered among the strongest coastal defense weapons on the entire East Coast.
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