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Fort Hancock and the Proving Ground
1874
Sandy Hook, New Jersey
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Szeremeta · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The Army tested nearly every gun it bought on this spit of sand for decades, the country's first proving ground, firing out to sea from a fort built to guard the approach to New York, later ringed with Nike missiles pointed up at Soviet bombers. It is a ghost post now, a mile of empty officers' houses on Officers' Row facing the bay, slowly falling down inside a national park.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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