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Web Photo Gallery: TRIPS: Sandy Hook, NJ
Tom Sundstrom
19 August 1998

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Sandy Hook, New Jersey, contains both a federal and state park, a US Coast Guard Station and a lighthouse. These pictures were taken with a Kodak DC-260 digital camera. sandy_hook_bay_1998-08-19.jpg
Sandy Hook Bay, with Atlantic Highlands to the left on the mainland...
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Looking out over New York Harbor
(see the World Trade Center Towers?)
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The US Coast Guard Station
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One of the old Fort Hancock homes...
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Looking south from the tip of Sandy Hook, the beaches on the ocean side sweep south and east as far as the eye can see.
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The pillbox with slits for two men with rifles cover the road and the entrance to the ammo storage (left).

World War II saw a lot of activity in Battery Potter. A fortified structure for cannons, the purpose was to protect New York Harbor from enemy shipping and submarines.

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