Throughout Angel Island's history, its 740 acres have been ... a cattle ranch, a Civil War military base, a quarantine site, an immigration station for newcomers to the U.S., a missile defense ...

Six thousand years ago, Miwok Indians hunted here. By the 1800s, Angel Island was serving as a military base, a role it played in mobilizations from the Civil War through the cold war. It also ...

Angel Island received ... The last military use of the island was short-lived when, during the 1950s Cold War, the army built a Nike Missile base on the island that was operational for only ...

and San Francisco's many eclectic neighbourhoods – Angel Island tends to get overlooked, even by locals. Strange, since it's absolutely teeming with history, from its days as a US military base ...

Captain Maggie McDonogh is the fourth-generation owner and operator of Angel Island Tiburon ... made it a military outpost, a defender of the Golden Gate. The army built a base there, Camp ...

Yesterday it was Ocean Beach, and today it's Angel Island. From history to believe-it-or-nots, these lists will highlight the best of the best. Angel Island is the largest island in the entire San ...