Salisbury Beach Military Reservation
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Salisbury Beach Military Reservation was a coastal defense site located in Salisbury, Massachusetts
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and Newburyport Harbor from possible air and naval attack. It never did have to fire its guns though but it did play an important part in the defense of the harbor.
Salisbury, Massachusetts
Salisbury is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 7,827 at the 2000 census. The community is a popular summer resort beach town situated on the Atlantic Ocean north of Boston on the New Hampshire border....
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History
The Salisbury Beach Military Reservation was built on state land. Its mission was to protect the Merrimack RiverMerrimack River
The Merrimack River is a river in the northeastern United States. It rises at the confluence of the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee rivers in Franklin, New Hampshire, flows southward into Massachusetts, and then flows northeast until it empties into the Atlantic Ocean at Newburyport...
and Newburyport Harbor from possible air and naval attack. It never did have to fire its guns though but it did play an important part in the defense of the harbor.
The site today
Today the site is home to Salisbury Beach State Park. The site also contains the remains of the batteries and buildings.External links
- http://www.northamericanforts.com/East/ma.html#salisbury
- http://web.archive.org/web/20091026233348/http://www.geocities.com/nhfortress/Towers/towers.html