Science Source ftp Apr 2015
EN_01170126_0852
Mess formation, detention barracks, Naval Training Station, San Francisco, California, circa 1918. Fort Point is a masonry seacoast fortification located at the southern side of the Golden Gate at the entrance to San Francisco Bay. Fort Point was damaged in the 1906 earthquake and temporarily abandoned until plans to turn it into a detention barracks were adopted. The Fort was remodeled, and yet, never did become detention barracks. The WWI troop buildup brought the Fort back into use as housing for unmarried men. During this time the Fort was also used as a "base end station,"? which located the positions of attacking ships and controlled the firing of seacoast guns, mortars, or mines to defend against them. Abandoned once again after WWI, the Fort fell into severe disrepair. The fort is now protected as Fort Point National Historic Site, a United States National Historic Site administered by the National Park Service as a unit of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
2015-04-07
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