Last updated: March 10, 2021
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Battery Mills
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This battery is identical in design and construction as Battery Kingman, just north of Battery Mills. Like Battery Kingman, Battery Mills' two 12-inch barbette carriage mounted guns stood on large round concrete platforms so that the guns could fire 20 miles in any direction in a circle that included the Atlantic Ocean, Lower and Upper New York Harbor, Sandy Hook and Raritan Bays, as well as south towards the New Jersey Seashore. Wooden sheds were used to shelter the guns from the weather. Battery Mills' guns were casemated during World War Two to protect from them aerial bombing, but because warfare changed greatly during the war, Battery Mills and Battery Kingman both became obsolete and were scrapped in 1948.
Albert L. Mills
The battery was named in honor of Albert L. Mills, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his gallantry during the Spanish American War after being severely wounded in combat in Santiago, Cuba in 1898.