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Historic documentation for the 2025 CDSG Conference — Download zip file sets by clicking links below.

Boston RCWs: Set 1 = = = Set 2 === Set 3

Boston Other Documents: Maps, Battery correspondence files, Engineer notebook, and other files

Boston: QM building records

Boston Aerial photos: Set 1 = = Set 2

Boston: HD Project plans

Boston Documents: extras

East Point Military Reservation/ municipal park, Northeastern Univ. Marine Lab /KK

Murphy (#104)/ 2- 16″/ CBC/ 1944-1948
#206/ 2- 6″/ SBC/ 1943-1948
unnamed/ 2- 155 mm/ PM/ buried

FORT RUCKMAN/ Nahant/ municipal/ park/ K

Gardner/ 2- 12″/ BCLR/ 1924-1946/ casemated- WWII, partially buried

FORT BANKS/ Winthrop/ 1899/ municipal park/private/ K

Lincoln/ 8- 12″/ M /1896-1943/ magazines covered
Kellogg/ 8- 12″/ M/ 1896-1943/ magazines covered, 1 pit buried

FORT HEATH/ Grovers cliff/ private & municipal park /X

Winthrop/ 3- 12″/ DC/ 1901-1945/ destroyed
AMTB 945/ 2- 90 mm/ F /1943-1946 /buried

FORT DAWES/ Deer Island/ Massachusetts Water Resources Authority/ MD, MC/ X

#105/ 2- 16″/ CBC/ 1944/ NA (guns were on site)/ now destroyed
#207/ 2- 6″/ SBC/ 1944- /destroyed
Taylor /2- 3″/ P/ 1942-1944/ from Strong, destroyed
AMTB 944/ 2- 90 mm/ F /1943-1946/ destroyed

FORT WARREN/ Georges Island/ Metropolitan Dist Comm park/ MD, MC/ KKKK

Stevenson/ 2- 12″/ DC/ 1903-1945
Bartlett/ 4- 10″/ DC/ 1899-1942/ 1 emplacement destroyed
Adams/ 1- 10″/ DC/ 1899-1914
Plunkett/ 2- 4″/ P/ 1899-1925
Lowell/ 3- 3″/ MP/ 1900-1920

FORT STANDISH/ Lovells Island/ Metropolitan District Commission park/ KKK

Morris/ 2- 10″/ DC/ 1907-1942
Burbeck/ 2- 10″/ DC/ 1907-1942
Terrill/ 3- 6″/ DC/ 1902-1943/ erosion encroachment
Whipple/ 2- 6″/ P/ 1904-1947/ modified, WWII
Vincent/ 4- 3″/ MP/ 1904-1920 /#1 & #4 mod. to 3″ AA- WWII, partially buried
Weir/ 2- 3″/ P/ 1906-1926 /destroyed
Williams/ 3- 3″/ P/ 1904-1946
AMTB 943/ 2- 90 mm/ F/ 1943-1946

FORT STRONG/ Long Island/ 1870 /city hospital/ MD, MC/ KKK

Hitchcock/ 3- 10″/ DC/ 1899-1939
Ward/ 2- 10″/ DC/1899-1939
Drum/ 2 -4.7″/ A /1899-1917
Smyth/ 2- 3″/ P/ 1906-1921/ guns to Basinger
Stevens/ 2- 3″/ P/ 1906-1946
Taylor/ 2- 3″/ P /1906-1942/ guns to Ft. Dawes, WWII
Basinger/ 2- 3″/ MP/ 1901-1947/ 2-3″ P guns from Smyth after 1921

FORT ANDREWS/ Peddocks Island/ Metropolitan District Commission park/ KKKK

Cushing/ 8- 12″/ M/ 1904-1942
Whitman/ 8- 12″/ M/ 1904-1942/ 4 Mor. rem. 1910, repl with M1908
McCook/ 2- 6″/ P /1904-1947/ rebuilt WWII
Rice/ 2- 5″/ P/ 1904-1917/ CRF on #1
Bumpus/ 2 -3″/ P/ 1904-1946

FORT DUVALL/ Hog Island/ 1920-1944/ private (Renamed Spinnaker Is)/ K

Long/ 2- 16″/ BCLR/ 1927-1948/ casemated- WWII, built on

FORT REVERE/ Telegraph Hill, Hull Metropolitan District Commission/ private K

Ripley/ 2- 12″/ BC/ 1901-1943 /buried, built on
Field/ 2- 5″/ BP/ 1901-1917/ part. dest. and buried
Sanders/ 3- 6″/ DC/1906-1917/ two guns removed in 1917, third gun tactically part of Pope
Pope/3- 6″/ DC/ 1906-1943 / after 1918 battery was four guns
AMTB 941/ 2- 90 mm/ F/ 1943-1946/ dest./buried

Outer Brewster Island/ Massachuseltts Dept. Environmental Management/ KK

Jewell (#209)/ 2- 6″/ SBC/ 1943-1948

Great Brewster Island/ Massachuseltts Dept. Environmental Management/ KK

AMTB 942 /2 90 mm F 1943-1946

Fourth Cliff Military Reservation/ Scituate/ Air Force recreation area/ KKK

#106/ 2 -16″/ CBC/ NB/ no final location (Flowers Hill)
#208/ 2- 6″/ SBC/ 1944-1948/ Generators still in place

Sagamore Hill Military Reservation/ K

unnamed/ 2- 155 mm/ PM
Boston, MA 1921: 1921 Maps PDF (606K) 18 pages $0.90/ 1935 Maps PDF (384K) 12 pages $0.60
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