Battery Mount Vernon

Battery Mount Vernon (1898 - 1917). N 38°42.912 W077°03.108
Named (4/4/1900) after George Washington's Plantation, located nearby.
Located here were three 8-inch guns on disappearing carriages.
{see "American Seacoast Defenses" 2nd Ed. page 108}

Battery Mt. Vernon.	Gun emplacement #3.
Gun emplacement #2.	Gun emplacement #1. Note the BC Station.

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