Battery William Worth

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Two 10" disappearing carriage guns were mounted here from 1898 to 1942.

In an unprecedented spark of creativity, when the state park system was looking to develop Fort Casey into a major state park in the 1970s, they realized that what was really lacking at the fort were examples of the Spanish-American War-era disappearing guns.

The vast majority of the weapons were scrapped either during or after WWII, but the state realized that two surviving examples of 10-inch guns were on the fortress island of Corregidor in the Philippines.

The state purchesed the guns and had them disassembled, shipped, and reassembled at Fort Casey. It remains the only complete 10-inch gun Endicott-era battery in the U.S.

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