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Entrance to proving ground, Sandy Hook (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Harry Angstrom said:

  info on Sandy Hook en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Proving_Ground Possibly tied to this news item: GREAT 286-TON GUN BLOWS UP ON A TEST; Earth Trembles at Sandy Hook and Three Officers Hear Music of a Thousand Steel Missiles. December 10, 1912, Tuesday Page 1, 1182 words With a detonation that was heard for miles, followed by a rain of steel, the fourth of the big fourteen-inch guns sent to Sandy Hook by the Ordnance Department of the Government to be tested, exploded yesterday morning. It was the first full pressure round to which it had been subjected, and the $60,000 gun, in the words of one of the officers, "simply didn't meet the test and went to pieces." query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C0CE4DB1E3AE633A...

• Jimmy Mac said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Vintage New Jersey, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

• Stuart Yeates said:

  View this place on google maps at maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geo...