Many of those defenses are still standing and can be observed during a visit to the beach. In later years, Nike missiles stood ready to shoot down nuclear weapons. Concrete bunkers and rail-mounted guns were buried in the beach dunes so that they could disappear from sight after firing on enemy ships. Later, Fort Hancock was raised in 1895 to shore up coastal defenses of New York City. The area first served as Sandy Hook Proving Ground, where soldiers tested new ammunition and ordnance at a safe distance from human settlements. Military operations at Sandy Hook reached their peak between the Civil War and the Cold War. Life Saving Service (forerunner to the Coast Guard) had more success in that era, with its two Sandy Hook stations working to rescue shipwrecked sailors. A second fort was started in the middle of the 19th century, but it was never completed because the artillery developed during the Civil War rendered the design obsolete.
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The entire peninsula was purchased by 1814 and has been kept free of civilian development ever since. government built Fort Gates in time for the War of 1812. Having lost the Hook to the British during the Revolutionary War, the fledgling U.S. The strategic position outside of the Narrows and New York Harbor quickly made Sandy Hook an important military base.
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