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[[File:Bald Cliff Station 06.jpg|center|thumb|Bald Head Cliff from Ogunquit]]Built in 1944 on a .37-acre tract of land as Location 152 for Battery 103/Seamen at [[Fort Dearborn]] this station was located on the grounds of the Cliff House Hotel in York Maine. A concrete building disguised as a garage was built to hold a water tank. After the war in 1947 the hotel reopened with the tower on the property. In the early 1960s a swimming pool was built next to the station and in 1964 it was dismantled for new construction. Today the site of the station is mostly covered by a new section of the hotel.
[[File:Bald Cliff Station 06.jpg|center|thumb|Bald Head Cliff from Ogunquit]]Built in 1944 on a .37-acre tract of land as Location 152 for Battery 103/Seamen at [[Fort Dearborn]] this station was located on the grounds of the Cliff House Hotel in York Maine. A concrete building disguised as a garage was built to hold a water tank near the station. After the war in 1947 the hotel reopened with the tower on the property. In the early 1960s a swimming pool was built next to the station and in 1964 it was dismantled for new construction. Today the site of the station is mostly covered by a new section of the hotel.
[[File:Bald Head Cliff MR.jpeg|center|thumb|Image of the station 1960s]]
[[File:Bald Head Cliff MR.jpeg|center|thumb|Image of the station 1960s]]
[[File:Bald Cliff Station 01.jpg|center|thumb|Station Locale]]
[[File:Bald Cliff Station 01.jpg|center|thumb|Station Locale]]
[[Category:Harbor Defenses of Portsmouth]]
[[Category:Harbor Defenses of Portsmouth]]

Revision as of 10:51, 26 July 2023

Bald Head Cliff from Ogunquit

Built in 1944 on a .37-acre tract of land as Location 152 for Battery 103/Seamen at Fort Dearborn this station was located on the grounds of the Cliff House Hotel in York Maine. A concrete building disguised as a garage was built to hold a water tank near the station. After the war in 1947 the hotel reopened with the tower on the property. In the early 1960s a swimming pool was built next to the station and in 1964 it was dismantled for new construction. Today the site of the station is mostly covered by a new section of the hotel.

Image of the station 1960s
Station Locale