Last updated: June 2, 2022
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Mortar Battery
![The high grey walls of the entrance to the Mortar Battery protect a large complex of storage rooms and mortar pits.](/common/uploads/place/import/7590af87-755b-4958-9fea-e36408c726ec_image_350.jpg)
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Sandy Hook was the site of America's first mortar battery. Completed in 1894, it mounted sixteen 12-inch caliber, breech-loading rifled mortars, which were divided equally in four massive concrete and earth covered "firing pits." The mortars were designed to fire armor-piercing projectiles, weighing up to 1,000 pounds, in high arcs to bombard an approaching enemy battleship or cruiser from above. This site is open to the public.