Battery Smith

One of eight Endicott batteries at 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 Second Lieutenant Joseph P. Smith, 5th U.S. Infantry, killed September 13, 1847 at the Battle of Chapultepec, Mexico. 

Construction started: 1899
Completed: 1903
Armament: Two 3-inch guns