Battery Bowdoin (Portland, Maine)

USA / Maine / Cape Elizabeth / Portland, Maine

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Three 12" disappearing carriage guns were mounted here from 1903 to 1943.

Battery Bowdoin was named on March 24, 1900 in honor of James Bowdoin, governor of Massachusetts, 1785-86, then including within its territorial limits the present State of Maine, and a member of the Federal Constitutional Convention.

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Coordinates: 43°38'25"N 70°12'1"W

Fort Levett 0.7 km
Fort WIlliams Park 1.9 km
Fort McKinley 5.4 km
Wreck of USS PE-56 11 km
USS S-21 (SS-126) wreckage 16 km
Plymouth National Guard Training Area 153 km
Fernald Airport (Former)/ Winterport Dragway 153 km
Former BOMARC Missile Base 176 km
Schoodic Institute 188 km
Columbia Air Force Station Over-the-Horizon Backscatter Radar 230 km

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