| East Point, Nahant Through Time Contributor(s): Butler, Captain Gerald W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1635000955 ISBN-13: 9781635000955 Publisher: America Through Time OUR PRICE: $21.59 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt) |
| LCCN: 2019304808 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6.3" W x 9.2" (1.20 lbs) 96 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - New England |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The history of East Point commences in the 1700s and continued through construction of an elegant summer hotel for Bostonians, later becoming the property of a Massachusetts Senator. The strategic site was used during the Spanish American War as a signal and mine system and later for experimentation of Hammond's radio-controlled ships, aircraft and defensive torpedo batteries, followed by electronic companies that used the site for the development of powerful searchlights. During World War I, U.S. Navy and Allied scientists, along with civilian scientists, came to the site to develop and test the highly secret submarine detector, mobile searchlights, and more advanced radio-controlled apparatus. During World War II, the site maintained the massive coastal defense gun batteries while the United States Navy operated a magnetic loop and sono-radio buoy station at East Point. The coastal defense site was dismantled postwar, and in 1952, it became an antiaircraft gun site followed by a Nike Ajax missile battery. The missile site was phased out in 1961 and the land was later purchased and presently operated by Northeastern University. |
Contributor Bio(s): Butler, Captain Gerald W.: - CAPTAIN GERALD W. BUTLER, of the Massachusetts State Guard, was the former curator of Forts Warren, and Independence, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, and Fort Rodman, New Bedford, Massachusetts. He has published twelve illustrated military books, three with Fonthill Media, and numerous periodicals on seacoast fortifications, and was the historian for U.S. Naval Reserve mine warfare units in New England. As a consultant to military museums and state parks, his illustrations of seacoast weaponry and fortifications have been published worldwide. As an enlisted man in the U.S. Army, he served with the elite Army Intelligence Security Agency's Special Operations Units. |