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Excavations Will Be Completed by the End of This Month—Regulars at Winthrop Mortar Battery Comfortably Settled … The excavations for the platform for the first or lower gun is completed and the masonry for the platform has taken shape and will soon be completed. Yesterday the regulars came in to man
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was built to the site by 29 March, bids for lumber were received in April, and the "Winthrop Mortar Batteries" of the regular army (Battery F and Battery M) were ordered to Grovers Cliff in May 1898 for the 16 mortars, with the batteries encamping 16 May on Cherry Street in Boston. Constructed during
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along foreground shore, large rectangular white area on west (right). Pictured items not on the 1921 map include the roads through the barracks area connecting to the off-post intersection that is now the Highland Av & Pond St intersection
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Capt. H. D. Todd, Jr., Coast Artillery Corps, fire commander (northern battle command), Fort Heath, Mass. … Col. Charles P. Nutter, commanding Coast Artillery Corps, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Fort Heath,
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was activated at Fort Heath on 1 June 1941. From September–November 1941 the camouflage training school for the First Coast Artillery District was conducted by the Corps of Engineers at Fort Heath. Gun No. 1
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Report describes the transformation using the 2010 Jerry L. Wahl model applied to the WW2 grid coordinates of Gun No. 1 supplied by Paul Grigorieff from the 1945 Army Engineers' report on the Boston Harbor
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Fort Heath map of "FEB. 17, 1921" with added modern annotation to "roughly" indicate a former survey marker in the roof of the southernmost of the "BC" buildings (top—6 small adjoining blocks).
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in 1895. November 1890 planning for the military site was for 3 artillery rifles and 16 mortars, and by spring 1898 Lieutenant Sewail was in charge of construction. A spur of the
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had a Fort Heath unit. In 1908 the fort had a "range-finders house" and a sea wall was considered (constructed on the south shore by February 1921). In 1917 a "duct line" between
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The FAA operated the ARSR-1 until the mid-to-late 1990s, and by 2005, the "Fort Heath property" acquired by the town had been converted to a municipal park. The fort land is a
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Lieutenant Sewail, who is overseeing the work of erecting fortification at Grover's Cliff, Winthrop Highlands, and getting in readiness for defence the batteries at
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On the high land in Winthrop, back of Grover's Cliff, three batteries will be built, one three 10-inch breech rifles, and two with 12-inch mortars, sixteen in all.
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radar was used to track aircraft 220 miles distant for flight-following" purposes. …the army and air force also used this surveillance radar for
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In 1958, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) constructed long-range acquisition radar at Fort Heath. Commissioned in 1959, the
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ended its northward trek as the land began to get hillier and rockier, ending in a headland in the Highlands known as Grover's Cliff
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The acquisition of the Fort Heath property and its conversion to a magnificent park with an unequaled view was truly a milestone
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the sixteen guns in the mortar battery. Cherry street, a private way leading in to the battery, has been turned into a camp.
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Became a MISSILE MASTER control site in the 1950s (demolished 1969). The FAA obtained a radar site here from 1965 to 1986
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Fort Heath was in a section of the town called the Highlands. This area was hilly compared to the rest of the town.
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is being organized… Battery F, Seventh, has been ordered to Grovers Cliff and Battery G of the same regiment to
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Antiaircraft Battery No. 4 was designated in 1935 after the third gun pad was constructed in 1934 for
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The instructor was First Lieutenant Walter Krotee, sent from the faculty of the Engineer School at
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The United States Navy Field Test Station, Fort Heath, was established by 1938 and included a
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Fortification appropriation bill: hearings [February 17–20, 1908] before the …
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in 1961, operated the Air Force portion of the facility. The station also had an
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Fort Heath was a secondary station for a 1907 naval exercise, and in 1908 the
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This disappearing carriage at Battery Alexander or Battery Bloomfield at
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Anti-Motor Torpedo Boat Battery 945 at the eastern tip of Fort Heath (
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The Grover Cliff geodetic survey station marker was emplaced in 1847 (
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Butler, Gerald W; Shaner, Mary; Shaner, Richard (12 December 2001).
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Message from the President of the United States (28 February 1903).
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fort, a 1930s USCG radio station, prewar naval research facilities,
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Harbor Defense Command was the name given after 1925 to the coastal
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Extracts from Reports by Regular and Militia Officers on the Joint
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After the 1925 renaming of the Coast Defenses of Boston to the
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Note: In the mid-to-late 1990s the FAA assumed control of the
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Battery AMTB 945 - FortWiki Historic U.S. and Canadian Forts
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covered the northern harbor approaches with a pair of
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Index

Old West
Forts in Nebraska
Harbor Defenses of Boston
Winthrop Highlands
Grovers Cliff

Grovers Cliff
Fort Heath is located in Massachusetts
42°23′19″N 70°58′09″W / 42.38861°N 70.96917°W / 42.38861; -70.96917
coastal artillery
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William Heath
Continental Army
namesake
World War I
World War II
Cold War
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GPX (primary coordinates)
GPX (secondary coordinates)
US seacoast military installation for defense
Boston
Winthrop
Coast Artillery
World War II
Cold War
Harbor Defenses of Boston
United States Army Coast Artillery Corps

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