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Fort Heath
US seacoast military installation for defense / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Fort Heath was a US seacoast military installation for defense of the Boston and Winthrop Harbors with an early 20th-century Coast Artillery fort, a 1930s USCG radio station, prewar naval research facilities, World War II batteries, and a Cold War radar station. The fort was part of the Harbor Defenses of Boston (Coast Defenses of Boston 1913–1925) and was garrisoned by the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps. The fort's military structures have been replaced by a residential complex, including the luxurious Forth Heath Apartments, and recreation facilities of Small Park, which has both a commemorative wall and an historical marker for Fort Heath.
Fort Heath | |
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Part of Harbor Defenses of Boston | |
location: Winthrop Highlands[1] at Grovers Cliff[2] | |
![]() Southeastward view with the face of Grovers Cliff along foreground shore, large rectangular white area[specify] 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 (right). | |
Coordinates | 42°23′19″N 70°58′09″W |
Type | coastal artillery site and radio/radar station eponym: General William Heath (Continental Army)[3] namesake: Fort Heath Apartments |
Site information | |
Owner | private and municipal |
Condition | private apartment complex and municipal park |
Site history | |
Built | c. 1898 |
In use | 1898–1966 |
Demolished | 1947 – buildings[citation needed] 1969 – control site tbd – nuclear bunker 1979–1980 – FAA radar & building |
Battles/wars | World War I World War II Cold War |
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