Fort Baldwin (Battery Hawley)

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Title

Fort Baldwin (Battery Hawley)

Subject

HISTORY,PEOPLE

Description

Battery Hawley is one of three batteries in Fort Baldwin in Phippsburg, Maine. It is a 6-inch coastal gun battery whose construction started in 1905 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers and was finished in 1908. The battery was dedicated to Brevet Major General Joeph Roswell Hawley on the 25th of January 1906, almost a year after his death. Hawley fought with distinction throughout the Civil War, having participated in the First Battle of Bull Run, the Port Royal Expedition, the siege of Charleston, the Battle of Olustee, the siege of Petersburg, and the attack on Fort Fisher. The battery was deactivated in 1924 and today it accepts visitors as a military, historical site with no weapons on site.

Source

american

Date

13th November 1908

Contributor

md269@st-andrews.ac.uk

Language

English

Type

Still Image

Extent

cm x cm x cm

Spatial Coverage

current,43.7530155,-69.7886994;

License

Creative Commons Attribution License

Europeana

Europeana Type

IMAGE

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Wiki

https://www.cineg.org/wiki/index.php/Fort_Baldwin_(Battery_Hawley)

DescriptionEN

Battery Hawley is one of three batteries in Fort Baldwin in Phippsburg, Maine. It is a 6-inch coastal gun battery whose construction started in 1905 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers and was finished in 1908. The battery was dedicated to Brevet Major General Joeph Roswell Hawley on the 25th of January 1906, almost a year after his death. Hawley fought with distinction throughout the Civil War, having participated in the First Battle of Bull Run, the Port Royal Expedition, the siege of Charleston, the Battle of Olustee, the siege of Petersburg, and the attack on Fort Fisher. The battery was deactivated in 1924 and today it accepts visitors as a military, historical site with no weapons on site.

State

Maine