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FORT TILDEN/ Rockaway/ 1926-1945/Gateway National Recreation Area/ KKK
Harris/ 2-16″/BCLRA/ 1924-1948/ casemated WWII
Unnamed/ 4-12″/ M/ 1917-1919/at NAS Rockaway
Kessler (West)/ 2-6″/ P/ 1917-1947/ from Kinney, Slocum, rebuilt 1941-42
#220/ 2-6″/ P/ 1942-1946/ part. buried, NA?
Ferguson (East)/ 2-6″/ P/ 1917-1942/ from Burke, Hamilton, b uried

FORT HAMILTON/ East Narrows, Brooklyn/ 1831/ Army Post/ X(has remains of Third System fort)
Piper/8-12″/M/1901-1942/ (all Hamilton emplacements have been destroyed or buried for highway)
Brown/2-12″/DC/1902-
Doubleday/2-12″/DC/1900-1943/
Neary/2-12″/BC/1900-1937
Gillmore/4-10″/DC/1899-1942/originally 7 empl., 3 later designated Spear
Spear/3-10″/DC/1898-1917
Burke/2-6″/P/1903-1917/guns to Tilden
Livingston/4-6″/DC/1905-1948/later 2-P, 2-DC (2 DC guns to West Point)
Johnston/2-6″/P/1902-1943///
Mendenhall/4-6″/DC/1905-1917
Griffin/2-4.7″/A/1899-1913/1 BC remains
&/2-3″/MP/1902-1920
&/2-3″/P/1903-1946

FORT WADSWORTH/West Narrows, Staten Is./1821/Gateway NRA, Federal Housing/MD, MC/KKK
#115/2/16″/CBC/NB
Ayres/2/12″/DC/1901-1942/partially buried
Dix/2/12″/DC/1902-1944
Hudson/2/12″/DC/1899-1944/partially buried
Richmond/2/12″/DC/1899-1942/partially buried
Barry /2/10″/DC/1899-1918/
Upton/2/10″/DC/1899-1925/partially buried
unnamed/2/8″/Rod/1898/
Duane/5/8″/DC/1897-1915/magazines removed, 1 empl. destroyed
Barbour/2/6″/A/1898-1920/1 empl. buried
&/2/4.7″/A/1898-1920/1 empl. buried, 1 partially buried
Mills/2/6″/DC/1900-1943/both emplacements partially buried
#218/2/6″/SBC/1943 NA/-1958?
Catlin/6/3″/P/1904-1942
Bacon/2/3″/MP/1899-1918
Turnbull/6/3″/P/1903-1944/later 2 guns removed, partially buried
New Turnbull (#14)/4/3″/P/1942-1946/covered

FORT HANCOCK/ Sandy Hook, N.J. /1885/ Gateway NRA, USCG/ MD, MC/ KKKKK
Proving Ground/many – various/various/1890-1920/Proving Ground moved to Aberdeen, 1920
Dynamite/2/15″/Pne/1896-1902/USCG shooting range
&/1/8″/Pne/1896-1902/mine casemate 1921
Potter/2/12″/GLC/1890-1907
McCook/8/12″/M/1898-1923/advanced HECP-HEDP post 1943
Reynolds/8/12″/M/1898-1918/
Alexander/2/12″/DC/1899-1943
Bloomfield/2/12″/DC/1899-1944
Richardson/2/12″/DC/1904-1944
Kingman/2/12″/BCLR/1922-1946/casemated 1943
Mills/2/12″/BCLR/1922-1946/casemated 1943
Halleck/3/10″/DC/1898-1944/one gun removed 1910s
Granger/2/10″/DC/1898-1940s/
Arrowsmith/3/8″/DC/1909-1921/partially destroyed
Peck/2/6″/P/1903-1946/guns & carr. relocated ’43 to Gunnison site
Gunnison/2/6″/DC/1905-1943/extensively rebuilt for Peck’s guns
Peck “II” /New Peck/guns from original Peck/1943-1946/(ex-Gunnison), guns repl 1976 Still Empl., battery being restored
Engle/1/5″/BP/1898-1917/CRF built on empl.
unnamed/1/4.7″/P/1898/temporary (Schneider)
Urmston/6/3″/MP + P/1903-1944/2 guns later replaced with M1903 P
Morris/4/3″/P/1908-1946
New Urmston (#6)/2/3″/P/1942-1946/partially covered
AMTB #7/2/90 mm/F/1943-1946
AMTB #8/2/90 mm/F/1943-1946/on ex-Peck

Highlands Military Reservation, New Jersey (Navesink)/Hartshorne Woods County Park /KK
Lewis (#116 )/2/16″/CBC/1944-1948/
unnamed/4/12″/M/1917-1920/only one empl. remains uncovered
#219/2/6″/SBC/1944-1949/

other sites/ ?
#117/2/16″/CBC/NB/Nigger Pt. (now JFK Airport)
#20, /2/3″/P/1942-1946/Rockaway Point
New Catlin (#18)/4/3″/P/1942-1946/Norton Point, buried
AMTB /2/90 mm/F/1943-1946/Rockaway Point
AMTB #19/2/90 mm/F/1943-1946/Norton Point, buried
AMTB/2/90 mm/F/1943-1946/Miller Field
AMTB #12/2/90 mm/F/1943-1946/Swinburne Island

South Entrance New York, NY & NJ: 1921 Maps PDF (501K) 12 pages $0.60/ 1935 Maps PDF (252K) 10 pages $0.50

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