Fort DuPont is named in honor of Rear Adm.
Bishop Crumrine wrote, "these guns command the channel and could blow to atoms any vessel rash enough to attempt to pass." In the decades to follow, the battery at Delaware City was gradually modernized into a formidable military post that rema.
In 1864, Sgt.
Fort DuPont originated during the Civil War as a heavily armed earthwork fortification.
Samuel Francis Du Pont and located on the Reeden Point tract, land initially granted to Henry Ward in 1675.
Fort DuPont is named in honor of Rear Adm