Battery Meigs

One of eight Endicott batteries in Fort Washington Park

NPS/ Claire Hassler

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In 1885, Secretary of War William C. Endicott, recommended a new system of seacoast defense that employed heavy steel breech-loading rifled guns, large mortars, rapid fire guns and underwater mines. 

Named for Brevet General Montgomery C. Meigs, U.S. Army, 1861-1862.  

Construction started: 1898
Completed in 1907
Cost: $117.000
Armament: Eight 12-inch mortars