This photo, taken in 2010, looks easterly at Gun Platform #1 (at right) of Battery Smyth, a battery of two 3-inch guns on the eastern side of the island that protected the mine fields planted between Long Island and Hull, along Nantasket Roads, the channel into Quincy shipyards. The three doorways into the concrete casemate at left are the magazines of the battery. Shells were brought from there up the steep stairs to the gun platform. The circle of mounting bolts for the 3-inch gun can still be seen on the gun platform, and the central conduit pipe still has a piece of wire (which used to supply current for the bulbs that lit the sights and dials) protruding up from it. The battery is now heavily overgrown. The wrought iron railing above the magazines was added within the last 10 years.

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