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<p>Foundation fill and landscape terracing provided a small patio-like area behind the Commanding Officer&#39;s Quarters (Building 1, demolished August 2008), April 2006.</p>

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<p>Altered landscape on the eastern side of Davids Island comprising a late 19th-century seawall with shoreline fill behind it (to right of wall), April 2006.</p>

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<p>Modified terrain in the Officers&#39; Row area of Fort Slocum--a graded hill slope interrupted by a retaining wall to the east of Howard Road, near the former sites of Buildings 7 and 8, April 2008.</p>

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<p>Complex landscape modification at one of Fort Slocum&#39;s fortifications, Pit A of Battery Haskin, part of the Mortar Battery, December 2008. Construction of the battery required deep excavation through soil and bedrock (left), followed by reinforced concrete construction and emplacement of earth fills (right).</p>

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<p>With the demolition of Fort Slocum&#39;s buildings in 2005-2008, artificial terrain features such as this foundation fill prism for one of the former barracks (Building 55), ascended by an abandoned flight of stairs, remain as vestiges of Fort Slocum&#39;s former built-up landscape (photographed December 2008).</p>

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<p>Line of nearly-upright bricks discovered buried beneath 7 inches of soil during excavation of an archeological test unit near one of the officers&#39; quarters (Building 6), October 2006. The line of bricks marked the former edge of a sidewalk constructed in the 1880s that was later partially demolished by removal of the surface brickwork.</p>

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<p>In 1926, personnel at Fort Slocum installed a small but challenging 9-hole golf course across the post&#39;s landscape. The golf course remained in use until around 1942. Here Sgt. Jake James taps a putt toward a hole on the Parade Ground in the 1930s.</p>

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