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First Day Hike: Walking Tour at Fort Ontario!
January 1, 2019
Time: 10:00 AM
Host/Presenter: Corey King
Location: 1 East Fourth St, Oswego, NY, 13126
Email: Corey.King@parks.ny.gov
Fort Ontario Post Historian Corey King will lead a unique World War I Commemorative First Day Hike at Fort Ontario at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 1. The hike will focus on the 75-acre Fort Ontario Military Reservation National Register District as it looked during the Great War. Nov. 11, 2018 marked the 100-year anniversary of the signing of the Armistice which brought World War I to a close.
The hike is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be available before and after the tour.
With the use of social media, First Day hikers will be able to use their smart phones, tablets and iPads to look at several original photographs of Fort Ontario taken between 1917 and 1919. King, who is an AmeriCorps staffer for Friends of Fort Ontario, will stop and discuss the photographs while standing on the approximate location they were taken. The photos will be uploaded to the Fort Ontario Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/FortOntario.
