Aaah Tilden...I want to go to that one too. That's the one I was thinking of Alan, thanks Rob!
Aaah Tilden...I want to go to that one too. That's the one I was thinking of Alan, thanks Rob!
To Know, To Dare, To Will, To Be Silent
My family and I lived on Fort Totten from 1968-1981. Today I run the Fort Totten web site http://www.forttotten.org and Facebook Group.
I worked with the production company on this episode of Cities of The Underworld for several months and my name appears in the credits.
The fact is, there was never a tunnel between Forts Totten and Schuyler. It's an urban legend. At over 130 feet, the Sound is too deep, and the tunnel-building technology of the era wasn't up to such a job. There are no maps, plans, letters or other documentation of such a tunnel. Just a lot of conjecture.
Originally Posted by ChrisF202
The show never states that the tunnel exists or ever existed. They tease around it, saying that *if* it existed it *probably* would have collapsed. They actually taped that part of the script in a ventilation shaft that they *called* a tunnel... a shaft that I know well, and which actually points *away* from the waterfront.
There's no way that a tunnel less than two feet wide would have been used to "tranport horses, men and ammo" under the Sound. I discussed this and other related issues on a piece on the Fort Totten Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49665311785.
Welcome aboard, Do you have any pics or stories to share?
Go me! I said basically the same thing.
Nice to meetcha, Nashville. Welcome to the site. My folks live in Knoxville, btw.
I'm there at least once a week for the FD I checked out the Fort over the summer pretty cool if you havent been there yet check it out!!...its usually open mon-fri in the morning and early afternoon I'm not 100% sure
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