California
Presidio of San Francisco
The Presidio was a military landscape for more than two centuries under Spain, Mexico and the United States before becoming national parkland. This guide follows colonial adobe, Fort Point, Buffalo Soldiers, 1906 refugee relief, Crissy Field aviation, Japanese American incarceration and military intelligence, Letterman Hospital and the Presidio Trust to show how a strategic base kept changing the meaning of the Golden Gate.
Stories in Presidio of San Francisco
- Main Post: Three Empires in One Military Landscape
- Officers’ Club: Adobe Survives Inside an American Base
- Fort Point: The Fort the Civil War Never Needed to Fire
- National Cemetery: The Empire Comes Home
- Buffalo Soldiers: Serving a Country That Segregated Them
- 1906 Relief: The Army Becomes Emergency Government
- Crissy Field: Aviation Lands on an Old Military Shore
- Building 35: Internment Orders and Japanese American Intelligence
- Letterman: War Comes Back as Patients
- Presidio Tunnel Tops: A Freeway Becomes a Park Roof