City: Fishkill
County: Dutchess
State: NY
Description
Rt 9 and Van Wyck Lake Rd
Fishkill
Dutchess County
New York USA
Postal Code: 12524
http://www.fishkillsupplydepot.org/
The Fishkill Supply Depot had the largest single burial ground of the Revolutionary War.
At its peak, the Encampment, built under orders from George Washington with its headquarters at the Van Wyck Homestead, was a small city which included extensive barracks and officer huts for thousands of soldiers, guard house and palisade, a prison, major hospital, artillery placements, storage buildings, an armory, blacksmith shops, stables, parade grounds, and a powder magazine which supplied all Northern Patriot forces. Today, the only maintained structure is the Van Wyck Homestead, a farmhouse which served as a headquarters for military operations.
