Fort Point National Historic Site - Sights - Historical Site San Francisco Attractions Map - View a map of the San Francisco's top attractions. Find out more about the any attraction. MAP INSTRUCTIONS If you move your mouse over a marker, the name of the attractions will appear. If you click on the marker, an information window will appear that contains the address, a description and a picture of the attraction. Click on the name and you will land on our individual attraction page. From there you can navigate to the attraction's official web site. The colored map markers indicate the different types of attractions. Red are Sights, Blue markers are Arts, Science & Museum locations, and Green markers are for parks & Gardens. If you click on the Legend option, you can choose which type of attractions will appear on the map by area. Choose just one type or chose all for a complete viewing of San Francisco attractions. If you click on the Attractions by Type tab, you will find a list of all the map's attractions by type with descriptions, a thumbnail picture and a link will highlight the attraction on the map with the information window open. As with all Google maps, you can zoom the map in and out; you can reposition it by dragging it with your mouse; and you can also change the map type from a normal Street view to a Satelite view, or to a Hybrid view that combines the other two views.

Fort Point National Historic Site

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Fort Point was constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1853 and 1861 to prevent entrance of a hostile fleet into San Francisco Bay. The fort was designed to mount 126 massive cannon. Rushed to completion at the beginning of the Civil War, Fort Point was first garrisoned in February of 1861 by Company I, 3rd U.S. Artillery Regiment. 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. In 1886 the troops were withdrawn, and the last cannon were removed about 1900. The fort was then used for storage and training purposes for many years. Between 1933 and 1937 the fort was used as a base of operations for the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge. During World War II, Fort Point was occupied by about 100 soldiers who manned searchlights and rapid-fire cannon mounted atop the fort as part of the protection of a submarine net strung across the entrance to the Bay. Fort Point is the only third system brick fort on the west coast of the United States. It became a National Historic Site on October 16th, 1970.

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San Francisco Attractions Map

View a map of the San Francisco's top attractions. Find out more about the any attraction.

MAP INSTRUCTIONS

If you move your mouse over a marker, the name of the attractions will appear. If you click on the marker, an information window will appear that contains the address, a description and a picture of the attraction. Click on the name and you will land on our individual attraction page. From there you can navigate to the attraction's official web site.

The colored map markers indicate the different types of attractions. Red are Sights, Blue markers are Arts, Science & Museum locations, and Green markers are for parks & Gardens.

If you click on the Legend option, you can choose which type of attractions will appear on the map by area. Choose just one type or chose all for a complete viewing of San Francisco attractions.

If you click on the Attractions by Type tab, you will find a list of all the map's attractions by type with descriptions, a thumbnail picture and a link will highlight the attraction on the map with the information window open.

As with all Google maps, you can zoom the map in and out; you can reposition it by dragging it with your mouse; and you can also change the map type from a normal Street view to a Satelite view, or to a Hybrid view that combines the other two views.