Battery Weed (Fort Richmond)

USA / New Jersey / Bayonne /

military, place with historical importance, fortification, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, interesting place

This earlier fortification was modernized under the Third System beginning in 1847.

As of 1851, it was intended to be armed with fifty-eight 32-pounder seacoast guns, twenty-four flank howitzers and fifty-eight 8" heavy seacoast howizters, for a total of 140 guns.

It was renamed Battery Weed on February 11, 1902 in honor of Captain Stephen H. Weed, 5th U.S. Artillery, brigadier general, United States Volunteers, who was killed in the battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania July 2, 1863.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_Weed

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Coordinates: 40°36'19"N 74°3'15"W

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