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__NOTOC__ Fort Hancock is a former United States Army fort at Sandy Hook in Middletown Township New Jersey. The coastal artillery base defended the Atlantic coast and the entrance to New York Harbor. Between 1874 and 1919, Fort Hancock was operated in conjunction with the US Army's Sandy Hook Proving Ground. It is now part of Fort Hancock Memorial Park. The Sandy Hook Light, the oldest working lighthouse in the United States, is located on the grounds of Fort Hancock. In 1893, Fort Hancock installed the nation's first disappearing gun battery at Battery Potter.〔(The Defenses of Sandy Hook ) (from a Sandy Hook, Gateway National Recreation Area, U.S. National Park Service information pamphlet. Accessed 2008-02-22.)〕 In the late 1950s anti-aircraft missiles from Project Nike were based at the fort. Fort Hancock was decommissioned in 1974. It is now part of the National Parks of New York Harbor under the National Park System. A museum is managed as part of the Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area. In 2013, the Park Service introduced Nubian goats to the fort in order to clear away poison ivy that has been growing unchecked on the six-acre property for about 40 years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Goats defending New Jersey historic site from poison ivy )〕 The NPS is soliciting proposals for renovation and use to the more than 35 buildings in the fort complex.〔http://www.app.com/article/20131129/NJNEWS/311290031/Park-Service-has-175-interested-old-fort-buildings?gcheck=1〕 ==Gallery== File:Aiming 14 gun, Sandy Hook, Bain News Service.jpg|One of the 14" disappearing guns File:6-inch gun on model 1900 pedestal mount.gif|6-inch gun on M1900 pedestal mount, similar to two weapons still present at Fort Hancock. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fort Hancock, New Jersey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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