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Battery Langdon

Battery Langdon
Battery Langdon today NPS/Breault

Quick Facts

Period Built: 1923

Location: Eastern-most battery; 0.4 miles west of life-saving station.

Notable Features: A massive bunker protected the largest guns in the area: US Army 12-inch/ 35 M1895MI gun on Barbette Carriage M1917, which fired a one-foot diameter projectile, weighing a half-ton, almost 17 miles.

Gulf Islands National Seashore

Last updated: December 16, 2019