Bowling Green
- a small public park in lower Manhattan at the foot of Broadway next to the site of the original Dutch fort of New Amsterdam
- built in 1733
- was a lead statue of King George III until in 1776, colonists tore it down to use it for bullets
- the iron fence around it still exists
- Stamp Act Riot in 1765- people marched down Bowling Green
- people assembled in front of the fort in protest
- Born in
Pennsylvania in 1765
- As a young man,
his first career was portrait painter
- He wanted to
expand his career, and therefore, ventured off to Europe
- When he was in
Europe, he changed his mind about his career and wanted to be an engineer
designer
- He met the
“right” people that helped him both financially and politically
- He began
designing steamships, submarines, canals and mines
- He created the
very first successful submarine called Nautilus for the British navy
- After helping the
British navy for two years by designing submerged bombs, he moved back to the
United States and helped the US navy.
- Designed the
steamboat called Clermont with New York City’s very own Robert Livingston.
- Sadly, Fulton
died when he walked home after jumping into an ice river in order to help save
his friend
- Buried in the
Trinity Church Cemetery
