Battery Thompson (Portland, Maine)
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Three 8" disappearing carriage guns were mounted here from 1902 to 1942.
Battery Thompson was named on March 24, 1900 in honor of Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Thompson, of the Massachusetts Militia, who effected the capture of Captain H. Mowett, then in command of certain British vessels in the harbor of Falmouth, and thereby averted for the time being the destruction of that town, now Portland, October, 1775.
Battery Thompson was named on March 24, 1900 in honor of Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Thompson, of the Massachusetts Militia, who effected the capture of Captain H. Mowett, then in command of certain British vessels in the harbor of Falmouth, and thereby averted for the time being the destruction of that town, now Portland, October, 1775.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 43°41'14"N 70°11'40"W
- Fort McKinley 0.6 km
- Fort Levett 4.6 km
- Fort WIlliams Park 6.9 km
- Wreck of USS PE-56 16 km
- USS S-21 (SS-126) wreckage 17 km
- Plymouth National Guard Training Area 148 km
- Fernald Airport (Former)/ Winterport Dragway 149 km
- Former BOMARC Missile Base 172 km
- Schoodic Institute 185 km
- Columbia Air Force Station Over-the-Horizon Backscatter Radar 226 km
- Great Diamond Island 0.9 km
- Casco Bay (Southern Section) 1.5 km
- Peaks Island 2.8 km
- Long Island 3.3 km
- Portland Country Club 3.7 km
- Falmouth Foreside, Maine 4.9 km
- Cushing Island 5.2 km
- Willard 6.2 km
- Falmouth, Maine 8.5 km
- Greater Portland 16 km