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=== Site 1B The Silo ===

[[File:Cape Elizabeth MR 16.jpg|left|thumb|195x195px|The Silo in 2023]]

This Fire Control Tower was built in 1943 as a Battery Commanders Station for Battery 201. It also housed a Base-End Station for Battery 201 (It would have housed the Gun-Group post, but it was never established after Battery 101's termination. The tower was built next to a farmhouse and disguised as a silo. Plans from 1941 show was to have been a three-story cottage style FC station. The farmhouse burned shortly after the tower ~~was completed~~. This tower was nearly identical to the one at [[Emerson Point MR]]. Today the tower is sealed and is slowly deteriorating. Barracks were once located next to the tower.

This Fire Control Tower was built in 1943 as a Battery Commanders Station for Battery 201. It also housed a Base-End Station for Battery 201 (It would have housed the Gun-Group post, but it was never established after Battery 101's termination. The tower was built next to a farmhouse and disguised as a silo. Plans from 1941 show was to have been a three-story cottage style FC station. The farmhouse used as a recreation building, burned shortly after the tower's completion. This tower was nearly identical to the one at [[Emerson Point MR]]. Today the tower is sealed and is slowly deteriorating. Barracks were once located next to the tower.

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 === Site 1B The Silo ===
 [[File:Cape Elizabeth MR 16.jpg|left|thumb|195x195px|The Silo in 2023]]
-This Fire Control Tower was built in 1943 as a Battery Commanders Station for Battery 201. It also housed a Base-End Station for Battery 201 (It would have housed the Gun-Group post, but it was never established after Battery 101's termination. The tower was built next to a farmhouse and disguised as a silo. Plans from 1941 show was to have been a three-story cottage style FC station. The farmhouse burned shortly after the tower was completed. This tower was nearly identical to the one at [[Emerson Point MR]]. Today the tower is sealed and is slowly deteriorating. Barracks were once located next to the tower.
+This Fire Control Tower was built in 1943 as a Battery Commanders Station for Battery 201. It also housed a Base-End Station for Battery 201 (It would have housed the Gun-Group post, but it was never established after Battery 101's termination. The tower was built next to a farmhouse and disguised as a silo. Plans from 1941 show was to have been a three-story cottage style FC station. The farmhouse used as a recreation building, burned shortly after the tower's completion. This tower was nearly identical to the one at [[Emerson Point MR]]. Today the tower is sealed and is slowly deteriorating. Barracks were once located next to the tower.