Plum Island Base-End Station - Location 137 A
photo by Thomas Stubbs, courtesy of Jack Wysong
The Plum Island station as seen in the 1950's.This small one-level concrete station was completed in October 1943 on a 1.6 acre site leased on permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and was used as a Base-End Station for Fort Dearborn (B3 S3 for Battery 103/Seaman and AAIS OP 2). It was purposely destroyed in the 1950's by the Mass. National Guard during a training exercise. Bits of concrete still remain strewn across the beach.
Located on Plum Island, Newbury, Massachusetts.
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