{"id":40,"date":"2011-04-17T12:18:33","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T16:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2011-08-15T23:19:29","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T03:19:29","slug":"kingsbridge-road-the-forts-mcgowan-house-in-1814","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Kingsbridge Road, the Forts, McGowan House in 1814"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/FtFishfromNorth_McGowanHouse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-41\" title=\"FtFishfromNorth_McGowanHouse\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/FtFishfromNorth_McGowanHouse-1024x620.jpg\" alt=\"Fort Fish, Kingsbridge Road, Harlem Creek, McGowan House, 1814\" width=\"640\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/FtFishfromNorth_McGowanHouse-1024x620.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/FtFishfromNorth_McGowanHouse-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A drawing c. 1855 from Valentine&#8217;s Manual, supposedly an 1814 view of Fort Fish and Nutter&#8217;s Battery (Nutting Battery?).\u00c2\u00a0 There is also Fort Clinton, the teepee-like rock in the left distance. And finally the McGowan house at the top of McGowan&#8217;s Hill, right across the road from Fort Fish.<\/p>\n<p>We looking from the north, along the Kingsbridge or Post Road, over a little bridge crossing the Harlem Creek. It is this little pathway, now in the Harlem Meer, that is often wrongly cited as &#8220;McGown&#8217;s Pass.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This view is hard to reconcile with present geography, or the more authoritative renderings of the 1814 period (particularly one of John Joseph Holland&#8217;s, shown below).\u00c2\u00a0 The two-windowed building on the left is probably supposed to be the gatehouse in the Pass, but it doesn&#8217;t look much like the watercolor renderings of Holland, who drew from life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/1889_14_img21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-59\" title=\"1889_14_img2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/1889_14_img21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/1889_14_img21.jpg 642w, http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/1889_14_img21-300x114.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A drawing c. 1855 from Valentine&#8217;s Manual, supposedly an 1814 view of Fort Fish and Nutter&#8217;s Battery (Nutting Battery?).\u00c2\u00a0 There is also Fort Clinton, the teepee-like rock in the left distance. And finally the McGowan house at the top of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/?p=40\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}