Plum Island Base-End Station - Location 137 A

B3/2 S3/2 Fort Dearborn

photo by Thomas Stubbs, courtesy of Jack Wysong

This small one-level 14-foot square concrete station was completed in October 1943 on a 1.6 acre site leased on permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and was used as a Base-End Station for Fort Dearborn (B3 S3 for Battery 103/Seaman and AAIS OP 2). The refuge was created in 1942. It was located about midway between the paved refuge road and the surf line, on the western side of the dune ridge, about 2.5 miles south of the Plum Island Jetty. The station was deliberately destroyed in the 1950s by the Mass. National Guard during a training exercise. Bits of concrete still remain today strewn across the beach. There is a $5 per car admission fee to the refuge.

GPS for Base-End Station (MY5279) - N 42° 46.575 W 070° 48.321 (NAD 83)
GPS for Location 137A Benchmark (MY5284) - N 42° 46.224 W 070° 48.083 (NAD 83)

Located within the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge on Plum Island, Newbury Beach, Massachusetts.

Parker River National Wildlife Refuge

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