Battery Peck
USA /
New Jersey /
Atlantic Highlands /
World
/ USA
/ New Jersey
/ Atlantic Highlands
World / United States / New Jersey
military, artillery battery
Two 6" pedestal mount guns were mounted here from 1903 to 1943.
Battery Peck was named on March 30, 1903 in honor of 1st Lieutenant Fremont P. Peck, Ordnance Department, U.S. Army, who was accidently killed February 19, 1895 by the bursting of a gun at Sandy Hook Proving Ground, New Jersey.
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Battery Peck was named on March 30, 1903 in honor of 1st Lieutenant Fremont P. Peck, Ordnance Department, U.S. Army, who was accidently killed February 19, 1895 by the bursting of a gun at Sandy Hook Proving Ground, New Jersey.
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Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 40°28'17"N 74°0'20"W
- Fort Hancock Historic Core 1.7 km
- NWS Earle Pier Complex/Leonardo Piers 5.5 km
- US Naval Weapons Station Earle 8 km
- Fort Monmouth Reuse and Redevelopment Area 17 km
- Floyd Bennett Field (NOP) 17 km
- Munition Rail Transport Storage Area 24 km
- US Naval Weapons Station Earle - Mainside 27 km
- Naval Air Engineering Station - Lakehurst 60 km
- Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC), Lakehurst, Aircraft Platform Interface Group 60 km
- Fort Dix Military Reservation 72 km
- Sandy Hook Bay 3.8 km
- Lower New York Bay 7.9 km
- Raritan Bay 12 km
- Hazlet Township, New Jersey 15 km
- Staten Island 16 km
- Southern Continuation of The Palisades 18 km
- Huguenot, Woodrow, Fresh Kills 19 km
- Brooklyn 20 km
- Queens 23 km
- Monmouth County, New Jersey 28 km