Interpretive marker describing the engagement of September 25, 1861, between the Freestone Point battery and U.S. Navy gunboats USS Seminole and USS Jacob Bell.

Freestone Point Battery was built in September 1861 with four earthen emplacements. In addition to being one of the four principal blockade batteries that fired on ships attempting to run the blockade of Washington, Freestone Point Battery also was probably built early and in such a prominent location to distract the Union Navy from the building of the "strong" batteries, such as the one at Cockpit Point. Abandoned by March 1852 when other more substantial batteries were in operation.

Freestone Point Confederate Battery, National Register of Historic Places 89001059

Inner harbour on a cloudy afternoon.

Freestone Point.

Sunrise 2023 September 11.

Duck in the inner harbour

Sunrise along the Bay of Quinte 2024 September 4.

Cloudy sunrise 2024 August 28.

Decorated memorial bench at Freestone Point.

Rising sun reflected in the water of the Bay of Quinte.

Sunrise along the Bay of Quinte 2024 October 6.

Orange and purple along tyhe horizon before sunrise along the Bay of Quinte 2022 August 28

Orange and purple sky and reflections in the water before sunrise.

A few red leaves at sunrise reflected in the inner harbour 2022 September 30.

Rising sun reflected in the water of the Bay of Quinte.

Bay of Quinte before sunrise 2023 July 12.

Inner harbour not empty yet.

Sunrise down the Bay of Quinte 2023 October 2.

Sunrise along the Bay of Quinte at Belleville Ontario 2023 July 20.

Festival of Lights at Jane Forrester Park.

Purple colour along the horizon before sunrise.

Higher clouds display more purple.

A little colour in the sky reflected in the Bay of Quinte before sunrise 2022 August 14.

Lots of purple and orange in the sky reflected in the Bay of Quinte before sunrise 2022 August 14.

Almost sunrise

Benches at Freestone Point.

Swan flying low over the Bay of Quinte

Sunrise along the Bay of Quinte at Belleville Ontario 2023 July 20.

Festival of Lights at Jane Forrester Park.

Purple sky reflected by the Bay of Quinte before sunrise 2023 September 17.

2024 June 4 purple sky reflected in the Bay of Quinte before sunrise.

Sunrise along the Bay of Quinte 2023 September 22.

Ice and water in the inner harbour.

Purple sky reflected by the Bay of Quinte before sunrise 2023 September 17.

Sunrise along the Bay of Quinte 2024 October 9.

Looking down the Bay of Quinte.before sunrise 2023 October 8.

Bay of Quinte before sunrise from near George Street Boat Launch.

Waterfowl on the Bay of Quinte just before sunrise 2023 September 11.

Seagulls on the Bay on Quinte.

Looking down the Bay of Quinte before sunrise.

Purple skies above the breakwater.

Almost sunrise along the Bay of Quinte.

Bay of Quinte before sunrise 2023 July 20.

Bay of Quinte sunrise 2022 July 27.

Almost sunrise along he Bay of Quinte.

Bay of Quinte before sunrise 2024 September 4.

Bay of Quinte before sunrise 2024 April 17.

Bay of Quinte before sunrise 2022 June 29.