WEST POINT, N.Y. (October 5, 2015) - Two dozen U.S. Army Garrison at West Point students and their parents toured Fort Putnam to learn about the Hudson River's importance and West Point's strategic role during the American Revolution, Sept. 16.
Balfour Beatty Communities Lifeworks Coordinator, Jodi Gellman, organized the program to help West Point home school families meet American history curriculum requirements. After viewing an electric map of the Hudson Valley and looking at the displays located in the fort's barracks building, the group walked the parapets of Fort Putnam as West Point Museum curator Paul Ackermann pointed out the important historic landmarks that made West Point "The key to America."
Along the way students discussed famous and infamous Revolutionary War characters and examined the cannon and defenses of the fort.
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