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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 ...
Pages in category "Military facilities in the San Francisco Bay Area" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Fort Mason, in San Francisco, California is a former United States Army post located in the northern Marina District, alongside San Francisco Bay.Fort Mason served as an Army post for more than 100 years, initially as a coastal defense site [3] and subsequently as a military port facility.
Fort Riley and Yuma Proving Ground have the first two Candlewood Suites hotels on post in the IHG Army Hotels system. They opened in December 2013. Fort Polk has the first-ever Holiday Inn Express to open on a military installation; Joint Base San Antonio: Largest Candlewood Suites (310 rooms) opened on-post as part of the PAL program [12]
As part of a military reduction program under the Base Realignment and Closure process from 1988, Congress voted to end the Presidio's status as an active military installation of the U.S. Army. [7] On October 1, 1994, it was transferred to the National Park Service , ending 219 years of military use and beginning its next phase of mixed ...
Fort Baker with the Golden Gate Bridge. Fort Baker is one of the components of California's Golden Gate National Recreation Area.The Fort, which borders the City of Sausalito in Marin County and is connected to San Francisco by the Golden Gate Bridge, served as an Army post until the mid-1990s, when the headquarters of the 91st Division moved to Parks Reserve Forces Training Area.