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[[Battery Winthrop]] with three 12" guns was accepted for service at Fort Heath on 4 Oct 1901. Only one permanent building was built at Fort Heath, a 12 man detachment barracks in 1901. The post was garrisoned by detachment from [[Fort Banks]]. | |||
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Revision as of 15:40, 6 February 2011
Fort Heath (1895-1965) - An Endicott Period Coastal Fort first established as Grover's Cliff Military Reservation (1895-1899) in 1895 near Winthrop, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Named Fort Heath in G.O. 43, 4 Apr 1900, after William Heath, a delegate from Massachusetts to the Federal Constitutional Convention, who served faithfully and honorably as a Major General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Abandoned in 1965.
Endicott Period (1890-1910)
Part of the Harbor Defense of Boston, Massachusetts.
Battery Winthrop with three 12" guns was accepted for service at Fort Heath on 4 Oct 1901. Only one permanent building was built at Fort Heath, a 12 man detachment barracks in 1901. The post was garrisoned by detachment from Fort Banks.
| Battery Click on Battery links below |
No. | Caliber | Type Mount | Service Years | Battery Cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battery Winthrop | 3 | 12" | Disappearing | 1898-1901-1901-1943 | $ 202,480 | |
| Source: CDSG | ||||||
World War I (1917-1918)
World War II (1941-1945)
| Battery Click on Battery links below |
No. | Caliber | Type Mount | Service Years | Battery Cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battery AMTB 945 | 2 2 2 |
90mm 90mm 37mm |
AMTB Fixed Mobile Mobile |
1943-1943-1943-1946 | $ ? | |
| Source: CDSG | ||||||
Cold War
Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) for the Nike missile defenses of Boston (1960-1964). The Air Force 820th AC&W Squadron operated Air Defense Command (ADC) radars at Fort Heath until 1966 when the FAA took over the station. The FAA moved to North Truro AFS, on Cape Cod in the 1990s.
Current Status
All Military sites are destroyed and overbuilt.
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Location: Fort Heath, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Maps & Images Lat: 42.388889 Long: -70.969444 |
Sources:
- Roberts, Robert B., Encyclopedia of Historic Forts: The Military, Pioneer, and Trading Posts of the United States, Macmillan, New York, 1988, 10th printing, ISBN 0-02-926880-X, page 401
- U.S.Army, Supplement to the Harbor Defense Project of Boston, Massachusetts, (HDB-AN-45), 31 Jan 1945, CDSG
- Coast Defense Study Group, CDSG Press, CDSG Digital Library
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