Formally Camp Long, and Fort Sullivan before that, the area on Seavey Island that the Portsmouth Naval Prison occupies has been in use since approximately 1775 first as a defensive outpost during the British-American War in the early 1800s and against attacks from the Confederate Navy in the 1860's. The site was dismantled and would not be used again until the Spanish-American War, when it was rebuilt to be used as a stockade and renamed Camp Long. Camp Long was dismantled in 1901 though the site would once again go under construction between 1905-1908 when the US Navy chose to build a naval prison there. The Porsmouth Naval Prison, as it would be named, would remain in service as the "Alcatraz of the East" until 1974 when it was rendered obsolete by the opening of the U.S. Disciplinary Ba
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| - Formally Camp Long, and Fort Sullivan before that, the area on Seavey Island that the Portsmouth Naval Prison occupies has been in use since approximately 1775 first as a defensive outpost during the British-American War in the early 1800s and against attacks from the Confederate Navy in the 1860's. The site was dismantled and would not be used again until the Spanish-American War, when it was rebuilt to be used as a stockade and renamed Camp Long. Camp Long was dismantled in 1901 though the site would once again go under construction between 1905-1908 when the US Navy chose to build a naval prison there. The Porsmouth Naval Prison, as it would be named, would remain in service as the "Alcatraz of the East" until 1974 when it was rendered obsolete by the opening of the U.S. Disciplinary Ba
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| - Formally Camp Long, and Fort Sullivan before that, the area on Seavey Island that the Portsmouth Naval Prison occupies has been in use since approximately 1775 first as a defensive outpost during the British-American War in the early 1800s and against attacks from the Confederate Navy in the 1860's. The site was dismantled and would not be used again until the Spanish-American War, when it was rebuilt to be used as a stockade and renamed Camp Long. Camp Long was dismantled in 1901 though the site would once again go under construction between 1905-1908 when the US Navy chose to build a naval prison there. The Porsmouth Naval Prison, as it would be named, would remain in service as the "Alcatraz of the East" until 1974 when it was rendered obsolete by the opening of the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Portsmouth Naval Prison was added to the National Register of Historical Places on January 26, 1970.
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