Others, first off, here's another look at an 'intact' Battery Geary illustration to help us understand what we will see. Our approach to the battery will be from bottom right in the rendering. I have numbered the Magazines for reference purposes, but I really do not know if they were numbered or lettered. 

 

Magazine #1 is at the far right and one 12-inch mortar of Pit ‘A’ can be seen beside it. A single tree grows in the centre of a crater that was Magazine #2. (I included this 2006 photo to help pinpoint the crater, that tree is gone now). The road winding around Magazine #3 heads toward Battery Crockett.

 

Magazine #1 straight ahead and part of Pit ‘A’ to the left.








I kicked away some dirt to expose one rail of the trolley line leading to Magazine #1.




Pit ‘A’ and Magazine #1




Pit ‘A’ has two of it’s four 12-inch mortars remaining at the battery.
In the background part of the parapet and a set of steps are still there. A big section of Magazine #1’s outer wall is missing.



 




12 in. No.40 ORD. DEPT. U.S.A. Mod. 1890 M1 BETHLEHEM 1899




This mortar has a little surprise inside the tube, it is still loaded! This is a 1,046 lb. Deck Piercing shell.

 

Looking from Pit ‘A’ across the battery to Magazine #3. You can see the crater in the middle.




Magazine #1.

 

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