- Fort Point, a National Historic Site since 1970, protected San Francisco harbor from Confederate & foreign attack during & after the U.S. Civil War.
- Although Fort Point never saw action during wartime, for security reasons, San Francisco officials decided to keep the fort for emergency purposes.
- Serpentine seeps are scattered along the bluffs on the road to Fort Point, along the southern end of Crissy Field, and north of Baker Beach.
- Such is the reputation of Presidio’s Fort Point National Historic Site, which made a memorable cameo in Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece, Vertigo.
- O Fort Point It is a fort, whose construction began in 1853, which is right under the Golden Gate Bridge, which was built long after the fort (1933).
- Kıyı savunmaları Alcatraz Adası , Fort Mason ve Fort Point'te inşa edildi. ABD Ordu Mühendisler Kolordusu , 1853'te Fort Point üzerinde çalışmaya başladı.
- On our trip, we entered San Francisco across the Golden Gate Bridge and the first site we stopped at was Fort Point.
- 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.
- Fort Point also a military post that never needed to defend itself. Throughout the Civil War, artillerymen at Fort Point stood guard for an enemy that never came.