Fort Constitution
List of Source Materials used for this Website
- The History of Fort Constitution (pamphlet), New Hampshire Division of Parks and Recreation, 1997
- Fort Constitution (Site of Fort William and Mary) (pamphlet), New Hampshire Division of Parks, 1974
- Coast Forts in Colonial New Hampshire (article), Robert Arthur; The Coast Artillery Journal - volume 58, No. 6, June 1923
- The Capture of Fort William and Mary, December 14 and 15, 1774 (booklet), Charles Parsons; Proceedings of the New Hampshire Historical Society, 1906; reprint Joseph Copley; Fort William and Mary Committee of the New Hampshire American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, 1974
- The Attack on Fort William and Mary (article), Theodore Chase; Historical New Hampshire - volume 18, No. 1, April 1963
- What Happened to the King's Powder? (article), Elwin Page; Historical New Hampshire - volume 19, No. 2, Summer 1964
- Fort William and Mary: A Case Study in Crowd Behavior (article), Theodore Crackel and Martin Andresen; Historical New Hampshire - volume 29, No. 4, Winter 1974
- New Hampshire on the Road to Revolution: Fort William and Mary, A Decisive Step (article), Douglas Sweet; Historical New Hampshire - volume 29, No. 4, Winter 1974
- Powder to the People: The Revolutionary Structure behind the Attacks on Fort William and Mary, 1774 (article), Darryl Cathers; Historical New Hampshire - volume 29, No. 4, Winter 1974
- Fort William and Mary Becomes Fort Constitution (article), Harriet Lacy; Historical New Hampshire - volume 29, No. 4, Winter 1974
- The Raids on Fort William and Mary: Some New Evidence (article), Paul Wilderson; Historical New Hampshire - volume 30, No. 3, Fall 1975
- The Seizure of His Majesty's Fort William and Mary at New Castle, New Hampshire, December 14-15, 1774 (essay), Thomas Kehr; New Hampshire Society, Sons of the American Revolution, 2001 (revised)
- Journal of the House: Saturday, January 27th, 1776, New Hampshire Provincial Papers, volume VIII, p 64 (appointment of Capt. Ezekiel Worthen as Chief Commander of Piscataqua River defenses)
- Letter from Capt. Titus Salter to the New Hampshire Congress, March 14th, 1776, New Hampshire Provincial Papers, volume VIII, p 92 (report of signaling methods to be used at the Fort Point Lighthouse on sight of enemy vessels)
- The Defenses of Portsmouth Harbor, 1794 - 1821: The First and Second Systems of Seacoast Fortification (article), Arthur Wade; Historical New Hampshire - volume 33, No. 1, Spring 1978
- Notes on the Garrison for Portsmouth Harbor 1798 - 1944, William Gaines, unpublished compilation, 2002
- Ordnance and Explosive Waste Chemical Warfare Materials: Archives Search Report Findings, Fort Constitution, Project Number D01NH030403, US Army Corps of Engineers, 1995
- Democracy Fights: A History of New Hampshire in World War II, Philip Guyol; Dartmouth Publications, 1951
- Constructing Munitions of War: The Portsmouth Navy Yard Confronts the Confederacy, 1861 - 1865, Richard Winslow; The Portsmouth Marine Society, 1995
- The World, Portsmouth, and the 22nd Coast Artillery: The War Years 1938 - 1948, Jack Wysong; Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., 1997
- Memories of Defending New Hampshire's Seacoast (newspaper article), Paul Snyder; Atlantic News, December 5 and 12, 1996 (an account of Cpl. Les Stevens at Fort Constitution in WWII)
- Army Engineers in New England: The Military and Civil Work of the Corps of Engineers in New England 1775 - 1975, Aubrey Parkman; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England Division, 1978
- Around Portsmouth in the Victorian Era: The Photography of the Davis Brothers, James Dolph and Ronan Donohoe; Arcadia Publishing, 1997
- Historic Portsmouth: Early Photographs from the Collection of Strawbery Banke, James Garvin and Susan Grigg; Strawbery Banke Inc., 1995
- New Hampshire in the Civil War, Bruce Heald; Arcadia Publishing, 2001
- "Do Your Job!": An Illustrated Bicentennial History of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, 1800-2000, Richard Winslow; The Portsmouth Marine Society, 2000
- Portsmouth, Gerald Foss; Alan Sutton Publishing, 1994
- Portsmouth Harbor's Military and Naval Heritage, Nelson Lawry, Glen Williford, Leo Polaski; Arcadia Publishing, 2004
- A Determination of the Historical Significance of Battery Elon Farnsworth, Fort Constitution, New Castle, New Hampshire (report), Nelson Lawry; University of New Hampshire, 2001
- Masonry Conditions Report: Battery Farnsworth, Walbach Tower, Mines Casemate (report), John Wastrom; University of New Hampshire, 2001
- Time Capsule Battery: The Problems at Battery Farnsworth (article), Glen Williford; The Coast Defense Journal, volume 16, No. 3, August 2002
- Reports of Completed Works, site plans, other reports, photographs, etc., copies from the National Archives and Library of Congress, via several members of the Coast Defense Study Group
- Coast Defense Journal (various articles and authors), Coast Defense Study Group Press, 1986 - 2002
- Designating U.S. Seacoast Fortifications: War Department General Orders and Letters from the Adjutant General, 1809 - 1950, Matthew Adams, 2000 (fort and battery nomenclature)
- Lighthouses and Lifesaving Along the Maine and New Hampshire Coast, James Claflin; Arcadia Publishing, 1999
- Lighthouses of Maine and New Hampshire, Timothy Harrison and Kathleen Finnegan, 1991
- numerous old newspaper articles from the Portsmouth Herald, via the Portsmouth Public Library and the Portsmouth Athenaeum