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| John Martini | profile | all galleries >> Battery Townsley Galleries: Historic Photos, Interpretation & Preservation Efforts >> Preservation & Interpretation | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
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 1942. Battery Townsley gun number 1 |
 2008. Battery Townsley gun no 1 |
 Today: Volunteer Tim Tyler leading interpretive tour |
 Opening day. June 10, 2007 (Photo courtesy Dan Ng) |
 Ranger Bob Holloway at interpretive contact table |
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 Opening day visitors, June 10, 2007 (Photo courtesy Dan Ng) |
 16-inch "drill round" displayed in entry hall. It weights 2,700 lbs. |
 Furnished projectile niche & ammunition hoist |
 Powder tanks in magazine. Each tank/can contained three bags of propellant. |
 A 1947 inventory chalked on a magazine wall records 150 powder cans in storage. |
 Today: Public tour in main corridor |
 Public Tour (Courtesy Christian Flurscheim) |
 Townsley casemate #2 (Courtesy Christian Flurscheim) |
 (Courtesy Christian Flurscheim) |
 Painting rear corridor |
 Preservation. Repainting main corridor, looking south |
 Before: Volunteers priming the generator room walls. |
 During: Partially-painted generator room panorama. |
 Empty paint buckets -- over 95 gallons used so far! |
 Preservation work: Non-historic interior wall, before demolition |
 Preservation: Interior wall demolition |
 Preservation: Interior wall demolition |
 Preservation: Main corridor after wall demolition |
 Before. Rear corridor as we found it. |
 After: Rear corridor cleaned, repainted, lit, doors operable. |
 Replica 16-inch projectile arriving at battery. It weighs 8 pounds. |
 Real 16-inch projectiles (weighing 2700 lbs each) from US Navy |
 Park Service maintenance crew using Bobcat to move 16-inch shells into magazine |
 Preservation. Original crew board for gun #1 painted directly on casemate wall. Almost faded to obscurity. |
 Replica crew board, 2008. Covers and protects the original board painted on the battery wall. |
 Interpretive panel inset into replica crew board. |
 Preservation. Casemate 1 entrance surrounded by non-historic trees, 9-28-07 |
 After: Casemate 1 entrance after tree removal and landscape restoration, 10-25-07 |
 January 29, 2008. NPS crew cutting out non-historic steel doors at north end of main corridor. |
 anuary 29, 2008. Cutting out steel doors at north end of main corridor. |
 New corridor door installation |
 New corridor door installation |
 New corridor door installation |
 New corridor door installation |
 "Stokes Doors" completed. |
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 Mess hall interior re-lit. Left right, Volunteers Sam Stokes, Morgan Ford and Greg Jennings. |
 Mess hall interior re-lit |
 Before: Rheostat box as found, 2006 |
 Priming rheostat box |
 Rheostat after repainting |
 Painting rheostat box in camouflage test 81.jpg |
 Finished camouflage job. |
 Before: Graffiti on exterior of casemate #2. camouflage test 80.jpg |
 During: Painting out graffiti with camouflage |
 Before: Townsley generator room July 2005.jpg |
 During: Partially painted generator room, 2007 |
 Before: Latrine doors as found, 2006 |
 Before: Officers' latrine door 2006 |
 After: Officers' latrine door after cleaning |
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