The Guns of Sandy Hook
The guns and missiles are silent now, most of them gone to scrap metal. But from colonial times until 1974, a series of defenses stood on Sandy Hook to guard New York Harbor. Here, for almost fifty years, the Army tested all its guns. And for eighty years Fort Hancock was the home of a full military community – with chapel, theater, jail and school.
Marker is on Hartshorne Drive, on the left when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
