Title
Battery Grattan at Fort Flagler
Artist
Tom Cochran
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
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This is gun emplacement #1 of two 6-inch disappearing gun mounts of Battery Grattan at Fort Flagler. Battery Grattan was named after Bvt. 2d Lt John L Grattan who was killed in 1854 in Grattan's Massacre near Fort Laramie, WY. The battery was completed in 1904 and housed the guns until deactivated in 1917, when the guns were sent to France. Fort Flagler is 10 miles south of Port Townsend on a bluff overlooking Admiralty Inlet. Fort Flagler was part of the Triangle of Fire Coast Artillery emplacements that protected the entrance to Puget Sound. April, 2021.
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October 16th, 2021
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