Fort Levett Parade & Fire-Control Complex

Battery Foote is only one work inside the larger Fort Levett reservation. The parade ground, barracks foundations, plotting rooms, and fire-control (base-end) stations that directed the harbor's mine and gun defenses through both world wars sit on the bluff immediately south of the battery.

• Rectangular concrete pads and stair remnants mark barracks and mess buildings around the parade.
• Small reinforced-concrete cubes with narrow horizontal slits are base-end fire-control stations, sighted on distant reference points.
• Buried conduit runs radiate from the plotting rooms toward Battery Foote and the shoreline observation posts.

Read the reservation as a system: guns at Battery Foote, eyes in the fire-control cubes on the bluff, math in the plotting rooms behind them, and cabling tying it all together. The parade is the social center; the concrete slits are the nervous system.

1. 1.Which fire-control cubes were sighted on White Head, and which on Portland Head Light?
2. 2.Where did the conduit from the plotting rooms surface on its way to Battery Foote?

Distances are straight-line from recorded coordinates. Island roads curve, so allow more time than the estimate.

• Fort Levett construction and armament records1898–1945
• The Harbor Defenses of Portland (history with reproduced plans)undated
• National Archives Fort Topical Index (Fort Levett / 'Fort Levitt, ME')undated