Fort Jay Again
Secretary of War Elihu Root, an appointee of President Theodore Roosevelt, redesignated the fortification Fort Columbus as Fort Jay in February 1904, shortly before leaving office. Root, a New Yorker was an admirer of John Jay and his Federalist party. He ordered the name of the fortification restored and extended it to the army post that evolved around it on Governors Island.
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