Warner House - Constitution Island
This land and house is located across from West Point and where the second chain hung across the river during the revolutionary war.
This property has long history and is severely neglected.
The house was lived in by the Warner sisters whom moved up from New York City when their father lost all his money in one of the stock market crashes. They must have been amazing ladies to live there themselves ( father died shortly after) and let the West Point cadets ( whom could not leave West Point) come over to hike and have a meal.There is rumor that the underground railroad ran through the house as well. The Warner sisters left the house to West Point which has done little to maintain the home. Constitution Island, a National Registered Landmark, was bequeathed to West Point by Anna Warner, one of the famed “Warner sisters” whose family lived in the house from 1836 to 1915. The 1908 letter sent on her behalf to President Theodore Roosevelt read, in part:
"I take pleasure in tendering as a gift to the United States ... Constitution Island, opposite West Point, embracing about 230 acres of upland and 50 acres of meadow, the same to be an addition to the Military Reservation of West Point and to be for the use of the United States Military Academy."
