Fort Hancock Historic District
by Kristia Adams
Title
Fort Hancock Historic District
Artist
Kristia Adams
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Photograph - Photograph
Description
Fort Hancock at Sandy Hook in Middletown, NJ had been occupied by some type of military installation until 1974. The coastal artillery base defended the Atlantic coast and the entrance to New York Harbor, with its first gun batteries operational in 1896. Between 1874 and 1919, the adjacent US Army Sandy Hook Proving Ground was operated in conjunction with Fort Hancock. In later years it served as proving ground, a mobilization center and eventually a Nike missile base that was eventually closed with deactivation of the Nike missile program in 1974. The missiles in the image are Nike-Ajax and Nike-Hercules missiles.
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February 16th, 2017
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