Fort Levett Parade & Fire-Control Complex
The main reservation south of Battery Foote
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.
Respect the private-community boundary and any posted federal-remnant zones. Never dig at or near concrete structures — record surface finds and location, and leave any ordnance in place (see the unexploded-ordnance safety card).
- 1.Which fire-control cubes were sighted on White Head, and which on Portland Head Light?
- 2.Where did the conduit from the plotting rooms surface on its way to Battery Foote?