Interpretive Panel: Another Shot

Wayside panel: Another shot

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Fort Foote briefly became a testing site after the Civil War. Army engineers developed the square King's Depression Carriage Mount in front of you. Using the mount, soldiers could load the gun from the safety of the parapet and raise it to firing position. They fired 34 test shots from 1869 to 1871. But hurling cannon balls over ships became a safety issue. In 1874, the Army moved the experiments to Battery Hudson, New York, and deactivated Fort Foote. Once abandoned, many of Fort Foote’s structures began to crumble beyond repair.