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The Guns of Sandy Hook

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From colonial times until 1974, a series of defenses stood on Sandy Hook to guard New York Harbor. For almost fifty years, the Army tested all its guns here. For eighty years, Fort Hancock was the home of a full military community with chapel, theater, jail, and school.
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