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United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, also known simply as Alcatraz ( English: / ˈælkəˌtræz /, Spanish: [ a l k a ˈ t ɾ a θ] "the gannet ") or The Rock, was a maximum security federal prison on Alcatraz Island, 1.25 miles (2.01 km) off the coast of San Francisco, California, United States. The site of a fort since the 1850s, the ...
San Francisco Armory. / 37.7678; -122.4206. The San Francisco Armory, also known as the San Francisco National Guard Armory and Arsenal or simply The Armory, is a historic building in the Mission District of San Francisco, California. Since 2018, it has been owned by SF Armory LLC, an affiliate of AJ Capital Partners.
The Great Seal, or the Great Seal of the State of California as it is officially called, is the impression made on "all commissions, pardons and other public instruments to which the signature of the Governor is required" with the attestation of the Secretary of State; the impression, with or without "wafer," is made by a master die and counter die of an officially adopted design fixed in a ...
In 1930, the city of Sunnyvale acquired a 1,000-acre (4.0 km 2) parcel of farmland bordering San Francisco Bay, paid for with nearly US$480,000 (equivalent to $8,754,741 in 2023) raised by the citizens of Santa Clara County, [10] then "sold" the parcel for $1 to the US government as a home base for the Navy airship USS Macon.
Barbary Coast, San Francisco. Coordinates: 37.79656°N 122.40593°W. The shipping docks of Buena Vista Cove at the east end of Pacific Street during the 1860s (San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library) The Barbary Coast was a red-light district during the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries in San Francisco that ...
Manilatown was a Filipino American neighborhood in San Francisco (i.e., a Little Manila ), which thrived from the 1920s to late 1970s. [ 1] The district encompassed a three block radius around Kearny and Jackson Streets, next to Chinatown. [ 2] The neighborhood was known for the International Hotel ("I Hotel"), a single room occupancy (SRO ...
In 1885, United States Secretary of War William C. Endicott, heading the Board of Fortifications, issued a report necessitating the coastal defense of San Francisco Bay.By September 1890, Colonel George Mendel, the army engineer officer in charge of defense construction in the San Francisco region, had selected for fortification a 73-acre (29.5 ha) tract of land near Point Lobos which belonged ...
Fleet and Industrial Supply Center, Oakland. Fort Baker. Fort Barry. Fort Cronkhite. Fort Funston. Fort Mason. Fort Miley Military Reservation. Fort Point National Historic Site. Fort Ross, California.