Wentworth-by-the-Sea Base-End Station

B" Battery Hunter, Fort Stark - 1921

no photograph

The old B" (secondary) station for Battery Hunter, Fort Stark, was a four-sided open-top station (no roof), about ten feet square with concrete block walls about 4.5 feet high, and with a concrete instrument pedestal, similar to, but larger than, the Seward's Point station on Gerrish Island. It was located on a small rise about 300 yards (1110 feet) east of the Wentworth Hotel's main entrance, and about 300 feet south of the highway, on land leased by the Army from the hotel. The baseline created by this station and the Seward's Point B" station (Battery Bohlen) was approximately 3680 yards long. The site became heavily overgrown in only a few years, and remained wooded until the structure was demolished and cleared by new residential development in 1998. There are no traces of it left today.

GPS for Base-End Station (New Castle 2 1898) (OC2167) - N 43° 03.615 W 070° 43.311 (NAD 83)
(benchmark is six feet south of the station site)

Located at 10 Harborview Street, near Wentworth-by-the-Sea, New Castle, New Hampshire.
Private Property!

1905 photo postcard

During World War I, the main (central) cupola of the Wentworth Hotel was approved as an observation station for the Gun Group Commander at Fort Stark, although it is not known for certain whether it was actually used as such, or for how long it was authorized for such use.

GPS for Wentworth Hotel (Old High Cupola) (OC2282) - N 43° 03.591 W 070° 43.566 (NAD 83)

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