[CPEO-MEF] FUDS, DEMOLITION: Ft. Slocum, Davids Island, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Last silhouette falls on Davids Island

Theresa Juva
Lower Hudson Journal News (NY)
September 10, 2008

NEW ROCHELLE

With the slow tug of a bulldozer, dozens of tons of steel gracefully 
tumbled to the ground on Davids Island yesterday morning.

The rusted water tower was the final structure to be demolished on the 
80-acre island and former military post. It also marked the end of a $26 
million Army Corps of Engineers project that tore down 90 buildings, 
which were once part of Fort Slocum. The fort, used from the Civil War 
to World War II, was once the largest military recruiting depot east of 
the Mississippi River and served the Army and Air Force.

"It has been an icon for Slocum," Barbara Davis, the city's historian, 
said of the water tower before it was pulled down. "It is the last 
remnant of the island visible from the shore."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008809100362

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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