Kimber Fort Rte. 284 Map / Directions for Kimber Fort
This site is right at the New York State line.
The green Welcome to New York sign is across the street.
Wantage is located at the New York border, and has one of the few surviving forts in the area, Kimber Fort.
This was used as a fort during the Revolutionary War.
The plaque reads:
"Kimber Fort and mill. George Kimber, wife Sarah Westfall bought land 1759. Early neighbor James Clark and Wife Sarah Van Auken lived Mile West. " [1]
Sources:
1.^ Plaque placed by the New York State Education Department in 1936.
