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Battery Granger - Stairwell
Battery Granger - Stairwell

Battery Granger (1898-1943) - Battery Granger was a reinforced concrete, Endicott Period 10 inch Coastal Gun Battery on Fort Hancock, New Jersey. The battery was named in G.O. 43, 4 Apr 1900, after MG Gordon Granger, U.S. Volunteers, a native of New York, and a distinguished officer of the Mexican War and the U.S. Civil War. Battery construction started in 1896, was completed in 1898 and transferred to the Coastal Artillery for use on 22 Mar 1898 at a cost of $87,000. Deactivated in 1943.

Part of the Harbor Defense of Southern New York. Battery Granger and Battery Arrowsmith were designed to replace Battery Potter whose complexity and slow rate of fire made it obsolete. Battery Granger was to cover the seaward approaches while Battery Arrowsmith covered the bay side.

Fort Hancock is a former United States Army fort at Sandy Hook, located in Middletown Township in Monmouth County, along the Atlantic coast of eastern New Jersey in the United States. This coastal artillery base played an important part in the defense of New York Harbor and played a role in the history of New Jersey. Between 1874 and 1919, Fort Hancock was operated in conjunction with the Army's Sandy Hook Proving Ground.

In 1893, Fort Hancock installed Battery Potter, the nation's first disappearing gun battery. It also was important for the defense of the vital New York Harbor throughout World War II, preventing the entrance of German submarines into the harbor. In the late 1950s Project Nike antiaircraft missiles were based there. Fort Hancock was decommissioned in 1974.

The fort and its small museum are managed as part of the Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area, and is part of National Parks of New York Harbor unit of the National Park System.

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Camera: Nikon D7000, f/5.6, 1/60 sec, 50mm (=75mm), ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)
Camera: Nikon D7000
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ISO: 100
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