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- 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.
- Fort Point, known historically as the Castillo de San Joaquín (Spanish for "Saint Joachim's Castle") is a masonry seacoast fortification located on the southern side of the Golden...
- Thomas Pownall established Fort Pownall in 1759, Fort Point State Park occupies a long peninsula with panoramic views of the Penobscot River and Penobscot Bay.
- 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, San Francisco, California. 7,488 likes · 18 talking about this · 58,899 were here. From its vantage point overlooking...
- Such is the reputation of Presidio’s Fort Point National Historic Site, which made a memorable cameo in Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece, Vertigo.
- Although Fort Point never saw action during wartime, for security reasons, San Francisco officials decided to keep the fort for emergency purposes.
- 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 fort was occupied throughout the Civil War, but the advent of faster, more powerful rifled cannon made brick forts such as Fort Point obsolete.