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English: This elevation drawing, from 1944-45, comes from the Report of Completed Works of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. It describes the more northerly of the two Coast Artillery fire control towers on Swallow Cave Rd. in Nahant, MA, known as Site 1A.
This tower is fairly typical of some 30 or more of these towers that were built along the Atlantic coast from Maine to Rhode Island during WW2 for the purpose of detecting seaborne and airborne targets and directing coast artillery and antiaircraft fire upon them. They ranged in height from 5 to 10 stories, depending on the heights of the sites at which they were built. Made of poured concrete, they often had unoccupied lower floors below their occupied observation levels. Staircases ran up to their lowest observation level, and wooden ladders then were used to climb to higher observation levels. For more description of the function of the tower, see the plan drawings of its floors (File: Nahant-1A-FCT-Plan.jpg). |
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