• From its vantage point overlooking the spectacular Golden Gate, Fort Point defended the San Francisco Bay following California's Gold Rush through World War II.
  • Military officials soon recommended a series of fortifications to secure San Francisco Bay. Coastal defenses were built at Alcatraz Island, Fort Mason, and Fort Point.
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  • Fort Point, a National Historic Site since 1970, protected San Francisco harbor from Confederate & foreign attack during & after the U.S. Civil War.
  • Fort Point National Historic Site is a stone fort built on San Francisco Bay on the south side of the Golden Gate Bridge.
  • Fort Point was built between 1853 and 1861 by U.S. Army Engineers as part of a defense system of forts planned to protect San Francisco Bay.
  • The answer: Fort Point, which started life as a 1794 Spanish adobe fort and was then replaced with the Civil War era American fort that remains today.
  • Although in 1865 General Irvin McDowell suggested that Fort Point be named Fort Redo the matter was let die.
  • The east side of Fort Point is up-and-coming – it draws new industry, new people. But trees have a hard time growing and many roads are cracked and sunken.
  • On our trip, we entered San Francisco across the Golden Gate Bridge and the first site we stopped at was Fort Point.