Long Island in Boston Harbor, with Fort Strong at one end (off sight here). From Google Earth: Fort Strong (2)
(1870 - 1960's)
Long Island
Originally named Long Island Military Reservation until 1899. The gun blocks and magazine of Long Island Head Battery (1874 - 1876), a 10-gun battery, still remain. Endicott batteries here are Battery Hitchcock (1899 - 1939), Battery Ward (1899 - 1939), Battery Drum (1899 - 1917), Battery Smyth (1906 - 1921), Battery Stevens (1906 - 1946), Battery Taylor (1906 - 1942), and Battery Basinger (1901 - 1947). A two-gun AA battery was built in the 1920's, expanded to three guns in 1935. A mine casemate was built in 1906, which commanded the northern channel (President Roads) minefields until replaced by Fort Dawes in 1944. Became a NIKE missile launch site in the 1950's, with the control site in nearby Squantum. The site is now owned by the Long Island Hospital. Camp Wightman, a Civil War training camp, was located on the island in 1861.
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