Sandy Hook’s military history dates back to the American Revolution, when the British used the peninsula - ideally located at the mouth of Lower New ... missile explosion at the nearby Nike site ...

It happened at the Nike missile site at Fort Hancock ... Fort Hancock: How Sandy Hook base protected New York City from being bombarded This was in the late 1960s, about a decade after the ...

They were named after Nike, the Greek goddess of victory. The best preserved of the former missile sites in New Jersey is located in Gateway National Recreation Area in Sandy Hook, where there are ...

A group of veterans who served at the Nike ... New Jersey's secret Cold War history. From 1954 to 1974, the United States Army's now-defunct Fort Hancock on Sandy Hook housed a secretive missile ...

A piece of Cold War history is up for sale in New Jersey, where a town is listing its Nike missile base ... Here's what the site looks like today. The missile base consists of two parts, the ...

If you're in the market for a fixer-upper with a difference - how about an abandoned Cold War-era nuclear missile site? There's one going in Woolwich Township, New Jersey, for just $1.8million (£ ...

During the Cold War, the Army maintained a missile base at Fort Hancock on the northern end of Sandy Hook, the last line of defense against an attack on New ... at the Nike missile site at Fort ...