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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10VZ_a-late-addition-to-officers-row_Highlands-NJ.html
When Officers Row was built, this site was left vacant to allow space for the West Beacon Range Light. Ships traveling across Raritan Bay would line up the lighthouse and beacon lights to mark their way. After the West Beacon was demolished in the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10VX_world-war-ii-victory-garden_Highlands-NJ.html
Plant a Victory GardenAfter World War II began, nearly all of America's industries converted to wartime production. Companies that built radios, cars and refrigerators began to manufacture jeeps, trucks and planes. This placed a great strain on th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10VW_history-house_Highlands-NJ.html
This officer's home, designed for a lieutenant and his family, was a testament to the rank and privilege of officers in the small peacetime army of the late 19th century. Fort Hancock was in operation from 1895 to 1974.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10VU_post-theater_Highlands-NJ.html
Soldiers could catch the latest films of the day at the Post Theater, which seated 300. The average ticket price in the 1930s and 1940s was ten cents. Fort Hancock was in operation from 1895 to 1974.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10VT_army-docks_Middletown-NJ.html
The first wharf built here was used to bring in granite blocks for the Fort at Sandy Hook. Later, cannon to be tested at the Sandy Hook Proving Ground were received here. In the 1890s barges arrived carrying the materials to build Fort Hancock. To…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10VR_officers-row_Highlands-NJ.html
Eighteen houses comprise Officers Row; each was home to an officer and his family. Traditionally, officers' homes faced toward the parade ground. Here however, army architects placed them facing Sandy Hook Bay to take advantage of the cool summer …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10VP_post-chapel_Highlands-NJ.html
Weddings, christenings, funerals, and services of all faiths took place here in Fort Hancock's chapel. It is one of the few surviving buildings from the pre-World War II mobilization period of 1940-41. First Sergeant Lawrence Markle, 7th Coast …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10VN_mule-barn_Highlands-NJ.html
In the days before automobiles, armies moved by horse and mule power. Fort Hancock stabled its army mules in this building. The teamsters, or mule skinners who drove the mule teams, lived in the house next door. In later years, the barn was conver…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10VM_fire-house-number-1_Highlands-NJ.html
Fort Hancock's first fire station was manned by enlisted soldiers who were the post's firefighters. The tower at the rear of the building was used for drying hoses. Today this is the National Park Service Sandy Hook fire fighting station. Fort …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10VL_baked-fresh-daily_Highlands-NJ.html
Every day at the Post Bakery, fresh bread was made for the mess halls and for sale at the Post Commissary. At 3 a.m. each morning soldiers would begin baking bread to feed the hundreds of troops who would report to the mess hall at 6 a.m., noon, a…
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