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Fort Hancock
🇺🇸 Estados Unidos · siglo XIX
Fort Hancock is a former United States Army fort at Sandy Hook in Middletown Township, New Jersey. The coastal artillery base defended the Atlantic coast and the entrance to New York Harbor, with its first gun batteries operational in 1896. The fort served from then until 1950 as part of the Harbor Defenses of New York and predecessor organizations. Between 1874 and 1919, the adjacent US Army Sandy Hook Proving Ground was operated in conjunction with Fort Hancock. It is now part of Fort Hancock Memorial Park. It was preceded by the Fort at Sandy Hook, built 1857–1867 and demolished beginning in 1885.
The Sandy Hook Light, built in 1764 and the oldest working lighthouse in the United States, is located on the grounds of Fort Hancock.
Texto adaptado de «Fort Hancock (New Jersey)» en la Wikipedia en inglés, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort Hancock ranks #2846 of 5793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #80 of the 98 mapped in Estados Unidos. Fundado en 1857, más antiguo que el 9% de los monumentos datados del atlas — uno de los 407 monumentos del atlas fundados en el siglo XIX. Compara el dato en las estadísticas de castillos.
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