Fort Kamehameha Fort Kamehameha was a United States Army military base that was the site of several coastal artillery batteries to defend Pearl Harbor starting in 1907 in Honolulu , Hawaii . History . The eastern areas of the fort were in the district called Moanalua . It was royal land won by conquest by Kamehameha I in the 1790s and eventually passed to Bernice Pauahi Bishop ( named " Bishop ' s Point " ) and then inherited by Samuel Mills Damon in 1884 . The western side known as Halawa , was the former beach - front estate of Queen Emma of Hawaii . The sandy dunes had been used as a burial site . After annexation of the Territory of Hawaii it was used for the U . S . Army in 1901 , and acquired by the U . S . federal government in 1907 by condemnation from Emma ' s estate . It was sometimes called " Queen Emma Military Reservation " or " Queen Emma Point " . Secretary of war William Howard Taft under President Theodore Roosevelt headed a group to review coastal defenses , in light of " possessions " such as Hawaii and the Philippines , based on the findings of the Board of Fortifications . Originally named Fort Upton for General Emory Upton ( 1839 – 1881 ) , on January 28 , 1909 after local citizens objected , Archibald Cleghorn suggested the name be changed to honor Kamehameha I , the first king of the unified Hawaiian islands . First phase . From east to west the sites built in the first phase were : Battery Selfridge . Battery Selfridge was constructed from November 1907 to 1913 with two 12 - inch M1895 guns on disappearing carriages , with a range of about . It was fort building 420 , NRHP site 84000975 , located at . It was named for Lt Thomas Etholen Selfridge ( 1882 – 1908 ) . Battery Jackson . Battery Jackson was constructed in 1913 was equipped with two guns on disappearing carriages , with a range of about . It was fort building 430 , about , state site 80 - 13 - 1601 and NRHP site 84000954 , . It was named for American Civil War General Richard H . Jackson . A massive concrete air raid shelter was built in 1915 . Battery Hawkins . Battery Hawkins was constructed in 1914 with two guns with a range of about . It was fort building 440 , NRHP site 84000928 located at , 440 Nelson Avenue . Another bunker built here was known as Hawkins annex , fort building 450 , NRHP site 84000948 , state site 80 - 13 - 1603 . Although the smallest of the batteries , it is the easiest to access . It was named for General Hamilton Smith Hawkins ( 1834 – 1910 ) . Battery Hasbrouck . Battery Hasbrouck ( sometimes misspelled as " Hasebrock " ) was constructed from July 1909 to 1914 and was equipped with eight 12 - inch coast defense mortar s , with a range of about . It was fort building 460 and NRHP site 84000925 . It was directly east of the entrance to Pearl Harbor , designed to protect its mine field , at coordinates , covering . It was named for General Henry Cornelius Hasbrouck ( 1839 – 1910 ) son of William C . Hasbrouck . Battery Chandler and Barri . At the west end of Fort Kamehameha , coordinates Battery Chandler had two guns named for Lt . Rex Chandler who died in an airplane crash in 1913 . Battery Barri had two 4 . 7 guns , was named for Captain Thomas O . Barri who died in the Civil War in 1863 . Construction on these was started in September 1914 . Barri was dismantled in 1925 and both no longer exist . Batteries Adair and Boyd . Each of these had two guns in casemate s located on Ford Island . They were constructed starting in August 1916 and named for Lt Henry R . Adair ( died 1916 ) and Captain Charles T . Boyd ( died 1916 ) . A few years later an airfield called Luke Field was built on Ford Island , and the site is now owned by the Navy . Battery Closson . The batteries were placed behind massive reinforced concrete walls about thick , which were in turn behind of earth . Within a few years the armaments of the first phase were obsolete . In 1920 , two guns of a new style on a barbette carriage that could traverse a full 360 degrees were installed and named after Civil War General Henry Whitney Closson ( 1834 – 1917 ) . This design had a projectile with elevation up to 35 degrees and range of . It was located about . Anti - aircraft guns were also added to protect from attack from above . In 1942 , concrete shielding was added above the guns . A row of officers ' houses was built in 1916 , and a chapel added in 1940 . Use . World War II some of the anti - aircraft guns were used in the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7 , 1941 , and a Japanese Mitsubishi A6M2 model 21 " Zero " crashed to become the first to fall into American hands . Preservation . None of the large caliber guns were ever fired except in practice about once a year . They were salvaged after the war . Some other sites within the fort besides the ones listed above were destroyed . The area around Selfridge and Jackson batteries are now used for the Hawaii Air National Guard . The eastern side of the military reservation ( where Battery Closson was located ) became the Mamala Bay Golf Course . The " Artillery District of Honolulu " ( state historic site 80 - 13 - 1382 ) was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Oahu on June 5 , 1984 . Fort DeRussy Military Reservation Battery Randolf ( which now houses a museum ) was also included in the preservation effort . In 1991 a sewage treatment plant was built on the western end of the fort . ( Note : the sewage treatment plant existed from before the early 1970s - former resident ) . On October 1 , 1992 its became part of Hickam Air Force Base . The residents were forced out of the homes by the U . S . Air Force and the historic homes were tragically abandoned in 2008 since they were near the runway of Honolulu International Airport despite belonging on the National Register of Historic Places .