West Point, NY

West Point is a census-designated place in New York. West Point is the oldest continuously occupied military post in the United States. Thus it was completed under Polish Colonel Tadeusz Kościuszko between 1778–1780; it was a key defensive fortification, overlooking the turn in the Hudson River and the Great Chain. O'Neill High School is its high school. The short version is that West Point carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on West Point: its past remains attached to the places people use now. New York Route 293 also runs northeast-southwest through the post. West Point is located on the Hudson River.