A History of FortMcClary State Historic Site, Sheila McDonald and Elaine Peverly; Maine Bureau of Parks and Recreation, and KitteryHistorical and Naval Museum, 1993
The Forts of Maine, 1607 - 1945: An Archaeological and Historical Survey, Robert Bradley; Maine Historic Preservation Commission, and Maine Bureau of Parks and Recreation, 1981
Coast Forts in Colonial New Hampshire (article), Robert Arthur; The Coast Artillery Journal - volume 58, No. 6, June 1923
The Defenses of Portsmouth Harbor, 1794 - 1821: The First and Second Systems of Seacoast Fortification (article), Arthur Wade; Historical New Hampshire - volume 33, No. 1, Spring 1978
Notes on the Garrison for Portsmouth Harbor 1798 - 1944, William Gaines, unpublished compilation, 2002
Constructing Munitions of War: The Portsmouth Navy Yard Confronts the Confederacy, 1861 - 1865, Richard Winslow; The Portsmouth Marine Society, 1995
Around Portsmouth in the Victorian Era: The Photography of the Davis Brothers, James Dolph and Ronan Donohoe; Arcadia Publishing, 1997
Portsmouth, Gerald Foss; Alan Sutton Publishing, 1994
Historic Portsmouth: Early Photographs from the Collection of Strawbery Banke, James Garvin and Susan Grigg; Strawbery Banke Inc., 1995
"Do Your Job!": An Illustrated Bicentennial History of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, 1800-2000, Richard Winslow; The Portsmouth Marine Society, 2000
Portsmouth Harbor's Military and Naval Heritage, Nelson Lawry, Glen Williford, Leo Polaski; Arcadia Publishing, 2004
Reports of Completed Works, site plans, other reports, photographs, etc., copies from the National Archives and Library of Congress, via several members of the Coast Defense Study Group
The Coast Defense Journal (various articles and authors), Coast Defense Study Group Press, 1986 - 2002
Designating US Seacoast Fortifications: War Department General Orders and Letters from the Adjutant General, 1809 - 1950, Matthew Adams, 2000 (fort and battery nomenclature)
Lighthouses of Maine and New Hampshire, Timothy Harrison and Kathleen Finnegan, 1991
numerous old newspaper articles from the Portsmouth Herald, via the Portsmouth Public Library and the Portsmouth Athenaeum
