Battery Whitman
USA /
Massachusetts /
Hull /
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/ USA
/ Massachusetts
/ Hull
World / United States / Massachusetts
military, historical layer / disappeared object
Eight 12" mortars were mounted here from 1904 to 1942.
Battery Whitman was named January 25, 1906 in honor of Major Frank H. Whitman, 20th
Kansas Volunteer Infantry (captain, 2nd United States Infantry), who served with distinction during the war with Spain and the insurrection In the Philippine Islands, and who died August 7. 1904.
Battery Whitman was named January 25, 1906 in honor of Major Frank H. Whitman, 20th
Kansas Volunteer Infantry (captain, 2nd United States Infantry), who served with distinction during the war with Spain and the insurrection In the Philippine Islands, and who died August 7. 1904.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 42°18'6"N 70°55'55"W
- Fort Standish / Lovell's Island 3.5 km
- Former Site of Boston Naval Shipyard 14 km
- Hanscom Field / Hanscom Air Force Base (BED/KBED) 36 km
- Major David Scott Connolly Armed Forces Reserve Center 61 km
- Devens United States Army Reserve Center 63 km
- Fort Devens Impact Area 64 km
- Turner Drop Zone 65 km
- Fort Devens 68 km
- New Boston Remote Tracking Station(AFSCN) 92 km
- New Boston Air Force Station 94 km
- Peddocks Island 1 km
- Long Island 3.4 km
- Squantum 6.6 km
- South Boston 9 km
- Winthrop, Massachusetts 9 km
- Logan International Airport (BOS/KBOS) 9 km
- East Boston 10 km
- Cohasset, Massachusetts 12 km
- Nahant, Massachusetts 14 km
- Swampscott, Massachusetts 18 km