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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Alcatraz was a U.S. military base before it was a prison, Nike missiles once bristled on Angel Island, and Treasure Island was a naval base for decades before it was sold to San Francisco in 2009.
Like Angel Island — and so many waterside spaces around the bay that are in transition, including Treasure Island and Alameda’s western edges — Mare Island was once a military base.
Angel Island received its ... coming home from the Pacific. The last military use of the island was during the 1950s Cold War when a Nike Missile base was built that was only operational for ...