page_title: East Point Military Reservation
section_title: Gallery of Additional Images
hierarchical_section_title: East Point Military Reservation / Postwar use / Gallery of Additional Images
caption_attribution_description: This drawing is from the Army Engineers' Report of Completed Works for the Nahant 155mm battery, dated December 1, 1942. The upper right-hand corner of the drawing shows a section view of a 155mm GPF gun mount. Below that are plan and section views of the small, wooden Battery Commander's (BC) station for the battery. The last portion of the drawing (on the left) relates the positions of the two guns and the BC station to the then-existing billiard house and to two geodetic markers, one from the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and one from the U.S. Engineers. The billiard house has long since been destroyed, and field work in 2010 could not find either of the survey markers, which were likely destroyed when the area was converted to a Nike missile battery in the 1950s and heavily graded-off.
context_page_description: East Point Military Reservation was a World War I and World War II coastal defense site located in Nahant, Massachusetts. In 1955–62 it was a Nike missile launch site. As of 2016 most of the site is the Marine Science Center of Northeastern University.
caption: 1942 plans relating to the 155mm guns.
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