Photograph as originally submitted to this page in the Historical Marker Database www.HMdb.org. Click on photo to resize in browser. Scroll down to see metadata.

Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: December 7, 2013
Caption: The Water Battery
Additional Description: (1) Magazines - stored ammunition
(2) Storehouse - housed gun carriages in peacetime
(3) Stables - housed workhorses
(4) Saddlers shop - where leather equipment was repaired
(5) Shot furnace - a furnace for heating solid cannon balls. A red hot shot lodged in a ship's timbers could start a disastrous fire.
(6) Blacksmith shop - where metal items were repaired and manufactured
(7) Gatehouse - included two guard rooms and a bridge over the ditch
Close-up of image on marker
Submitted: July 24, 2014, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p280109
File Size: 3.234 Megabytes

To see the metadata that may be embedded in this photo, sign in and then return to this page.