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Nike Hercules Missile Battery Summit Site, Anchorage Alaska, Anchorage, Anchorage, AK
Summary
See also HALS AK-9 for additional documentation.
Significance: The Summit Site Nike Hercules Missile Battery on Mt. Gordon Lyon near Anchorage, Alaska represents the ground to air defense system employed during the first two decades following World War II. The site is significant as the representative of the technology employed and the engineering feat accomplished in the construction of this and other Nike Hercules sites within Alaska.
Survey number: HAER AK-18
Building/structure dates: ca. 1957- ca. 1959 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1979 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 96000691
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Date
1959
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
U.S. Army
Alaska District Army Corps of Engineers
U.S. Army, Alaska (USRAL)
Alaskan Sea Frontier (ALSEAFRON)
Alaskan Air Command (AAC)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Houston, Bonnie S, transmitter
Location
Chugiak (Anchorage, Alaska), 61.21806, -149.90028
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
