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The Sandy Hook Proving Ground was a military facility along the Atlantic coast of New Jersey established by the Secretary of War on August 7, 1874, to serve as the United States Army's first proving ground for the testing of ordnance and materiel.
Sandy Hook Proving Ground was founded in 1874 for the testing and development of artillery. It served in this role until 1918-19, a period which included the nation's rise to a position of global power. Weapons developed here were deployed for use both as coastal defenses elsewhere in the United States, and by the United States Army for field ...
Following the Civil War, it was determined that masonry forts were vulnerable to rifled guns, and funding for their construction was cut off in 1867. The fort remained incomplete until 1885, when almost all of it was cannibalized to build the Sandy Hook Proving Ground, the new Fort Hancock, and supporting structures such as a seawall. [6]
The Sandy Hook Proving Ground was used for many years—beginning after the Civil War until 1919, when the facility was moved to Aberdeen, Maryland—and was later the site of a Nike missile defense installation. The Sandy Hook Nike station is one of a very few stations that are still intact.
Sandy Hook Proving Ground, in Sandy Hook, New Jersey, was the nation's first such facility. It was created in 1874 and was used as a proving ground until 1919. Scituate Proving Ground, a former proving ground in Scituate, Massachusetts, operational from 1918 to 1921
From the Sandy Ground Project which strives to build 26 playgrounds, one to honor each victim, to the 26 people who biked from Newtown to Washington, D.C. for a rally in support of gun control ...
It is a contributing property of the Fort Hancock and the Sandy Hook Proving Ground Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 24, 1980. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Memorial plaque in Trinity Church in Manhattan
Dec. 14 marked 11 years since my son Daniel was killed alongside 19 of his classmates and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Conn. As any parent of a murdered child will ...