Sagamore Hill Military Reservation
{{Infobox Military Structure
|name=Sagamore Hill Military Reservation
|partof=Harbor Defenses of Boston
|location=Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts
|coordinates={{coord|41|46|38.28|N|70|30|11.50|W|}}
|image= Sagamore Hill Gun Crew.jpg
|image_size=300px
|caption=A 155 mm gun and crew at Sagamore Hill, on a Panama mount.
| pushpin_map = USA Massachusetts
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Massachusetts
|type=Coastal Defense
|code=
|built=1940s
|builder=United States Army
|materials=
|height=
|used=1941–1945
|demolished=
|condition=
|ownership= Massachusetts
|open_to_public=
|controlledby= United States Army
|garrison= Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts
|current_commander=
|commanders=
|occupants= Battery C, 241st Coast Artillery
|battles= World War II
|events=
}}
Sagamore Hill Military Reservation was a coastal defense site located in Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts. Today, the site is the location of Scusset Beach State Reservation.
History
Sagamore Hill Military Reservation was built on state land in 1941-1942 by Battery C, 241st Coast Artillery Regiment of the Massachusetts National Guard, beginning shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Its mission was to protect the northern terminus of the Cape Cod Canal from possible naval attack; it was mirrored at the southern entrance by Butler Point Military Reservation. The site had two "Panama mounts" (circular concrete platforms) for two towed 155 mm guns. It never fired its guns in defense but did play an important part in the defense of the canal. The reservation was deactivated on 1 April 1945.[http://www.fortwiki.com/Sagamore_Hill_Military_Reservation Sagamore Hill Military Reservation at FortWiki.com]
=The site now=
The Panama mounts and battery commander's station of the two-gun 155 mm battery still remain, as well as several magazine "igloos".{{cite web |title=Southeastern Massachusetts - Sagamore Hill |url=https://www.northamericanforts.com/East/masouth.html#fourth |publisher=American Forts Network |access-date=18 July 2020}}
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
- {{cite book |editor-last=Berhow |editor-first=Mark A. | title = American Seacoast Defenses, A Reference Guide |edition=Third | location = McLean, Virginia | publisher = CDSG Press | year = 2015 | isbn = 978-0-9748167-3-9}}
- {{cite book| last=Butler|first= Gerald|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g6hDymrn3vwC |title=The Military History of the Cape Cod Canal |publisher= Arcadia Publishing |year=2002|isbn=0738510092}}
- {{cite book |last=Farson |first=Robert H. |title=The Cape Cod Canal |publisher=Wesleyan University Press |year=1977 |isbn=0819550124 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/capecodcanal0000fars }}
- {{cite book | last = Lewis | first = Emanuel Raymond | title = Seacoast Fortifications of the United States | publisher = Leeward Publications | year = 1979 | location = Annapolis | isbn = 978-0-929521-11-4 }}
External links
- [https://www.nae.usace.army.mil/Missions/Recreation/Cape-Cod-Canal/History/ US Army Corps of Engineers history of the Cape Cod Canal through 1940]
- https://web.archive.org/web/20080519224406/http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/recreati/ccc/history/ww2_coastal/ww2coastal.htm (dead link 18 March 2016)
- Williams, Eric, [https://archive.today/20130904020514/http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101111/NEWS/101119954 "Guard protected Cape Cod Canal"], 11 November 2010, http://capecodonline.com (Cape Cod Times site), retrieved 3 September 2013.
- [http://cdsg.org/fort-and-battery-list/ List of all US coastal forts and batteries] at the Coast Defense Study Group, Inc. website
- [http://www.fortwiki.com/Fort_Wiki FortWiki, lists most CONUS and Canadian forts]
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Category:1941 establishments in Massachusetts
Category:1945 disestablishments in Massachusetts
Category:Bourne, Massachusetts
Category:Buildings and structures in Barnstable County, Massachusetts
Category:Installations of the United States Army in Massachusetts