2023 CDSG Conference materials (click links to download zip files of documents) Updated March 22, 2023
download zip file with all the CDSG documents on the Harbor Defenses of Portland (Caution large file 1.3 GB): Portland-Kennebec.zip
Or download by sets:
- Portland RCWs, Engineer notebooks, Inspection reports
- Portland Project Plans, Annexes, Supplements
- Portland Maps
- Portland Signal Corps Aerial Photos
- Portland Quartermaster Building Records
- Portland Battery Construction Correspondance
- Portland other files, reports, articles, 2005 meeting notes
- History of the Harbor Defenses of Portland (Coast Defense Journal articles, added March 22nd)
Long Island Military Reservation /private /KK
- unnamed / 2-3″ / P / 1942-1943 / gunblocks covered
- AMTB 965 / 2-90 mm / F / 1943-1946 / one gun block built over
- AMTB 966 / 2-90 mm / F / 1943-1946
Other locations /KK
- unnamed / 2-3″ / P / 1942-1944 / Great Chebeague Island
- AMTB 969 / 2-90 mm / F / 1943-1946 / Great Chebeague Island, buried
- AMTB 970 / 2-90 mm / F / 1943-1946 / Bailey Island, one gun block covered
FORT LYON /Cow Island /1896 /private /KK
- Bayard / 3-6″ / DC / 1907-1917
- Abbot / 3-3″ / P / 1909-1946
FORT McKINLEY /Great Diamond Island /1896/ private /MD, MC /KKKKK
- Ingalls / 8-12″ / M / 1904-1942
- Berry /2-12″ /DC /1901-1943
- Thompson /3-8″ /DC /1902-1942
- Weymouth /3-8″ /DC /1901-1942
- Honeycutt /2-8″ /DC /1901-1942
- Acker /2-6″ /DC /1902-1943
- Carpenter /2-6″ /P /1906-1947
- Farry /2-3″ /MP /1902-1920
- Ramsey /2-3″ /MP /1902-1920
Peaks Island Military Reservation /private /MC /KK
- Steele (#102) / 2-16″ / CBC / 1945-1948
- Cravens (#203) / 2-6″ / SBC / 1945-1948 / built on
- unnamed / 2-3″ / P / 1942-1943 / one gun block covered
- AMTB 963 / 2-90 mm / F / 1943-1946
- AMTB 964 / 2-90 mm / F / 1943-1946 / buried/destroyed
Jewell Island Military Reservation /state prop /KK
- #202 / 2-6″ / SBC / 1944 / NC
- AMTB 967 / 2-90 mm / F / 1943-1946
- AMTB 968 / 2-90 mm / F / 1943-1946
FORT LEVETT /Cushing Island /1903 /private /KKKK
- Foote /2-12″ /BCLR /1924-1948 /casemated-WWII
- Bowdoin /3-12″ /DC /1903-1943
- Kendrick /2-10″ /DC /1903-1942
- Ferguson /2-6″ /P /1906-1947
- Daniels /3-3″ /MP 1/903-1920 /partially buried
- AMTB 962 /2-90 mm /F /1943-1946
FORT PREBLE /Spring Point /1808 /state school /KKK
- Kearny /8-12″ /M /1901-1942 /buried
- Chase /8-12″ /M /1901-1942 /buried
- Rivardi /2-6″ /DC /1906-1918
- Mason /1-3″ /P /1906-1942 /gun moved to new position 1942
- Mason II /1-3″ /P /1942-1946 / destroyed
FORT WILLIAMS /Cape Cottage /1898 /city park /MD, MC /K
- Blair /2- 12″ /DC /1903-1943 /partially buried
- Sullivan /3- 10″ /DC /1898-1938 /buried
- DeHart /2 -10″ /DC /1898-1942 /buried
- Garesche /2- 6″ /DC /1906-1917
- Hobart /1- 6″ /A /1900-1913
- Keyes /2 -3″ /P /1905-1946
- AMTB 961 /2 90 mm /F /1943-1946 /one gun block covered
Cape Elizabeth Military Reservation state park KK
- #101 /2- 16″ /CBC /NB /location not in park but nearby
- #201 /2- 6″ /SBC /194? /NA
Biddleford Military Reservation /private? /K
- unnamed /4- 155 mm/ PM
- Portland, ME: 1921 Maps PDF (573K)13 pages $0.65/ 1935 Maps PDF (256K) 7 pages $0.35