Sackets Harbor War of 1812 site
— — the quiet bay that decided a war's northern edge.
Not only on a wall.
“A protected inlet at the eastern end of Lake Ontario, twelve miles from the St. Lawrence and the Canadian shore. In 1813 a U.S. Navy yard here was the second-largest in the country. The British attacked twice. The earthworks, the powder magazine, and the Navy Yard buildings still stand, run as a state historic site. — from the studio
Sackets Harbor War of 1812 site, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
Sackets Harbor sits on a deep, protected inlet at the eastern end of Lake Ontario, in Jefferson County, New York, about 75 miles north of Syracuse. The village was founded in 1801 by Augustus Sacket. When the War of 1812 broke out, the harbor became the principal U.S. Navy shipbuilding yard on the Great Lakes; by 1814 it was the second-largest naval yard in the country. The battlefield, parade ground, powder magazine, and surviving Navy Yard buildings are preserved as a state historic site, open seasonally to the public.
Two British attacks define the site. The first, on 19 July 1812, was a small naval raid easily repulsed. The second, on 29 May 1813, was a serious land-and-water assault by roughly 900 British regulars and Canadian militia under Sir George Prevost, met by about 1,450 U.S. defenders under Brigadier General Jacob Brown. The Americans held, though a panicked U.S. officer set fire to the naval stores during the fighting, destroying much of what the battle was meant to save. After 1813 the yard expanded; the war ended in 1815.
The Battlefield State Historic Site is open seasonally, typically Wednesday through Sunday from late May through early September, with reduced fall hours. Admission to the grounds is free; donations are requested for guided tours of the Commandant's House and the Union Hotel visitor center. The site lies at the western edge of the village; the marked battlefield walk runs about a mile along the lake bluff, past the earthworks and the reconstructed blockhouse. Watertown, the nearest small city, is twelve miles east on Route 3.