East Battery

Description:

Photograph of East Battery looking north toward East Bay Street before Murray Boulevard was constructed. A horse and carriage can be seen in front of the Edmonston-Alston House (21 East Battery). Paine shot the image from the sea wall at White Point Gardens with the oyster shell path, that once surrounded the park, visible to the left. Print made from a glass negative.

In the mid-1700s, this area was made of large earthenworks of mud and sand in which wooden platforms were laid to support cannons. During the War of 1812, cannons were positioned all along this area and is thought to be the reason why it was named "East Battery."

• Title: East Battery
• Photographer: Paine, Morton Brailsford, 1883-1940
• Date: March 1901

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• Collection: Photograph Collection
• Object Name: Morton Brailsford Paine Photographs
• Object Id: MK 1402b

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