Caution Hazardous Terrain

Robin Gornell

This is the main building at Fort Stark. For more history and a photo of this building around the time of WWII, click here. The following is a quote from this site:

"Battery Kirk was converted into the combined Harbor Entrance Control Post, or Army HECP, and Harbor Defense Command Post, or HDCP, in 1942. This served as the communication and command center to control the entire Portsmouth Harbor Defense Area, which extended from Cape Porpoise, Maine, to Cape Ann, Mass.. It was built to resemble the superstructure of a navy ship, and was painted dark gray during the war. The top of the structure housed an SCR-682 area surveillance radar, within a radome."

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