Sagamore Hill Military Reservation

Sagamore Hill Military Reservation
Part of Harbor Defenses of Boston
Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts
A 155 mm gun and crew at Sagamore Hill, on a Panama mount.
Sagamore Hill Military Reservation Location in Massachusetts
Coordinates	41°46′38.28″N 70°30′11.50″W
Type	Coastal Defense
Site information
Owner	Massachusetts
Controlled by	United States Army
Site history
Built	1940s
Built by	United States Army
In use	1941–1945
Battles/wars	World War II
Garrison information
Garrison	Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts
Occupants	Battery C, 241st Coast Artillery

Sagamore Hill Military Reservation was a coastal defense site located in Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts. Today, the site is the location of Scusset Beach State Reservation.

History

Sagamore Hill Military Reservation was built on state land in 1941-1942 by Battery C, 241st Coast Artillery Regiment of the Massachusetts National Guard, beginning shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Its mission was to protect the northern terminus of the Cape Cod Canal from possible naval attack; it was mirrored at the southern entrance by Butler Point Military Reservation. The site had two "Panama mounts" (circular concrete platforms) for two towed 155 mm guns. It never fired its guns in defense but did play an important part in the defense of the canal. The reservation was deactivated on 1 April 1945.

The site now

The Panama mounts and battery commander's station of the two-gun 155 mm battery still remain, as well as several magazine "igloos".

See also

• Butler Point Military Reservation
• Seacoast defense in the United States
• United States Army Coast Artillery Corps
• List of military installations in Massachusetts

References

• Berhow, Mark A., ed. (2015). American Seacoast Defenses, A Reference Guide (Third ed.). McLean, Virginia: CDSG Press. ISBN 978-0-9748167-3-9.
• Butler, Gerald (2002). The Military History of the Cape Cod Canal. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0738510092.
• Farson, Robert H. (1977). The Cape Cod Canal. Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 0819550124.
• Lewis, Emanuel Raymond (1979). Seacoast Fortifications of the United States. Annapolis: Leeward Publications. ISBN 978-0-929521-11-4.

External links

• US Army Corps of Engineers history of the Cape Cod Canal through 1940
• https://web.archive.org/web/20080519224406/http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/recreati/ccc/history/ww2_coastal/ww2coastal.htm (dead link 18 March 2016)
• Williams, Eric, "Guard protected Cape Cod Canal", 11 November 2010, http://capecodonline.com (Cape Cod Times site), retrieved 3 September 2013.
• List of all US coastal forts and batteries at the Coast Defense Study Group, Inc. website
• FortWiki, lists most CONUS and Canadian forts