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[[Category:Harbor Defenses of New Bedford/Buzzards Bay]] | [[Category:Harbor Defenses of New Bedford/Buzzards Bay]] | ||
[[Category:Harbor Defenses of Narragansett Bay]] | [[Category:Harbor Defenses of Narragansett Bay]] | ||
Loc. 59 Gayhead was a WWII Fire Control Site in Aquinnah MA. | |||
Two Manhole FC's. One under viewing platform was for Battery Gray at [[Fort Church]] and one that has fallen into the ocean was for Battery Milliken at [[Fort Rodman]]. A 40-foot wooden tower for the Coast Guard was located next to the Gay Head Lighthouse that served the Anti-Aircraft Observer AAIS OP. This tower was dismantled sometime after 1955. In 2007 there were visible remains of the chain-link fence surrounding the Battery Gray FC, but it is not known if they still exist after a remodel of the observing area. | Two Manhole FC's. One under viewing platform was for Battery Gray at [[Fort Church]] and one that has fallen into the ocean was for Battery Milliken at [[Fort Rodman]]. A 40-foot wooden tower for the Coast Guard was located next to the Gay Head Lighthouse that served the Anti-Aircraft Observer AAIS OP. This tower was dismantled sometime after 1955. In 2007 there were visible remains of the chain-link fence surrounding the Battery Gray FC, but it is not known if they still exist after a remodel of the observing area. | ||
[https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=LW0051 DATASHEETS (noaa.gov)] | |||