Islands
MARE ISLAND
-1850: Mare Island granted by Mexican Government to Castro, who sold it for $7,000, purchasers disposing of it '51 for $17,500
-1853: Mare Island Ammunition Depot (later Naval Ammunition Depot Mare Island) founded
-03 October 1854: US flag hoisted under Commander David G. Farragut, first commandant of the yard. Navy paid $83,491. Further expenditure of $317,000 was required to in working order
-October 1856: astronomers of Exploring Expedition erected observatory
-1859: first ship, paddle-wheeled gunboat Saginaw, launched
-1861 - 1862: Army detachment on Mare Island, probably defending the Navy Yard
-1870: Hospital opens
-1872: stone dry-dock begun
-DC 1900: Navy set out to build its first class of submarines, designated "A" class.Two submarine torpedo boats, A-3 (SS-4) and A-5 (SS-6) built at San Francisco, California, by Union Iron Works, a subcontractor for the John P. Holland Torpedo Boat Company of New York
-1902: subs launched
-1903: subs commissioned at the Mare Island Navy Yard with Lt. Arthur MacArthur ( older brother of future General of the Army Douglas MacArthur) in command
-1904: Beginnings as a submarine repair center
-1911: USS Pennsylvania modified (30' x 132' platform) for Ely's flight
-01 July 1917: lighthouse closes
WWII
-Site hosted hosted a Naval Hospital amputee center for the Pacific theatre
-1227 ships repaired
-Farm outs: Folsom did metal assembly work, San Quantin did USN textile work
-1970: last ship, nuclear submarine U.S.S. Drum, launched
-MR96: Mare Island NS closed. Navy technically owns property and leases it out for 5 year stretches, including bunkers for wine storage
-02 February 1999: 300 plus employees of Pacific Southwest Regional Office (charge of Natl Forests in Ca, HW & Pacific) of US Forest Service leaves 630 Sansome (HQ Jsince 1944) for Mare Island, leaving SF after 91 years
-06 April 2001: Navy and Vallejo City Council agree that former will pay $81.6 million for cleanup. $67 million to go to Lennar, which has developed 670 acres
-Mare Island Naval Shipyard had 55786 acres and 914 buildings. Cal State Dept of Corrections to build temporary prison on 30 acres, US Forest Service to house 400 employees and families.
During tenure as oldest west coast Navy base, built 512 ships (including U.S.S. California, the only battleship built on the west coast) and repaired hundreds more
-4,351 acre facility
-996 buildings with 10.5 million square feet of space, 4 dry docks,
20 ship berths, 2 shipbuilding ways, 3 finger piers, 21 large industrial
sites, school, 2 day care centers, medical clinic, 3 fire stations, golf
course, 2 athletic fields, 3 swimming pools, 9 tennis courts, riding stables, and 416 housing units
-"Sphere" filmed in four buildings at the base. Parts of "Flubber" filmed there. "Jack" filmed in Building 523. "Metro" filmed at a number of locations on the base
-USF&WS got 670 acres of nontidal land, plus 3 dredge ponds; USFS got faciity for regional HQ; Vallejo USD got 3 buildings
COAST GUARD ISLAND
-1912- 1916: Army Corps of Engineers LTC Thom G Rees dredges Brooklyn Basin and deposits silt on a shoal, forming the 100 acre Government Island.
-1926: Coast Guard established
-1931: Via Executive Order, 15 acres transferred to Coast Guard for a permanent base
-September 1938: training station for US Maritime Service opens
-1939: A lighthouse, the US Lighthouse Service having just merged into Coast guard, was set up on Government Island. 35 acres acquired by Coast Guard from city of Alameda
-1940: training center established
-21 February 1942: Training Center construction begun
-01 June 1942: Training Center opens
-1942: 17 additional acres bought
-06 February 1943: Officer training station for US Maritime service closes
-July 1952: Coast Guard boot camp located there
-31 January 1954: USMS OTS closes
-01 June 1982: Support Center Alameda opens
-1982: Training Center closes. Name chaïnge to Coast Guard Island. Coast Guard HQ left downtown SF for Coast Guard Island
SKAGGS ISLAND
-1941: 3310 acres (of 4390 total) bought for military use. Developed the 60 northern acres
-1993: military base closed, although high frequency, direction finding antennae facility still in use, along with communications, computer support and training facility for Navy and other DoD elements.
-3310 acres of [7124 once belonging to government] Skaggs Island to Interior Department's US Fish and Wildlife Service for San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge
-Skaggs Island housed Naval Security Group Activity
FARALLONE ISLANDS
-1855: Farallone Light House established
-01 December 1972: last Coast Guarder leaves the Farallone Light House as it goes automatic
MILE ROCK
-19AU65: last crew left Mile Rock Light House so that it could be demolished
TREASURE ISLAND
-Treasure Island originally a 735 acre reef (2 feet underwater in some areas). 25 Million cubic yards of fill raised, with some 300 wells leeching out the salt. 403 acres, plus 129 on Yerba Buena Island
-11 February 1936: construction for 400 acre site starts, under command of LTC Janus A. Dorst, Army Corps of Engineers
-26 August 1937: Dredging starts. Seawall came next, followed by fill. During the building of roadway to treasure Island, a cemetery disturbed. Contained 98 graves. Earlier, cremated Indian remains had been found
-28 February 1941: USN took over. Sailors stayed aboard anchored river boats Delta King and Delta Queen while Treasure Island was changing over to Navy use. Navy swapped land adjacent to Mills Field for it
-01 April 1941: USN took over (under 5 year lease) and sets up Reception Center
-01 July 1941: Navy in; 12th Naval District HQ established there
-10”, 10,000’ pipe (under side of bridge’s upper deck) carries water to island
WW2
-16 April 1942, 6:03am: L-8 of Navy Airship Squadron lifts off with 27 year old Pilot Lt. Ernest DeWitt Cody and 38 year old Co-Pilot Ensign Charles Adams set off to patrol near Farallones.
11:15 am: bathers near Olympic Club Golf Course see it touch down briefly on a beach near Ft Funston, where an on-board depth charge explodes.
Later touches down, unmanned, on Bellvue Avenue in Daly City
-17 April 1942: Seizure of TI from SF
-1943: USN adds 6.7 acres
-US Naval Training & Distribution Center during WWII, as well as hosting a Fire Control/ Range Finder School
-1947: fire destroys Galley K and Mess Hall
-1968: SFUSD takes over elementary (k-8) school
-23 February 1999: USN to lease 766 residential units to Treasure Island Development Authority, who'll sublease them to John Stewart Co for public rent. Remaining 234 units to Treasure Island Homeless Development Initiative
YERBA BUENA
-198 acres
-09 July 1846: Commodore John D Sloat landed Marines on island
-July 1846: all mines laid in the bay retrieved. Mines and cables stored at Forts Baker and Scott, extra cable gƒoing to the Coast Guard Depot on the southern end of Yerba Buena Island
-19 December 1866: Army troops on YBI. One Officer, 1 Sergeant, 10 Privates
-1867: A company of engineers were sent to the island and a post began to take shape on a low plateau near the eastern edge, the only area level enough for a camp. Two years later the camp still was "in an unfinished condition," the surgeon reported. Called both a "post and depot", Yerba Buena had facilities for four officers and 150 men. a few pilings remain to show location of wharf at which government boat stopped every other day in 1870's
-1867 - 1880: Army presence on Yerba Buena Island
-1868: War Dept transports of 125 of Engineering Corps at Point San Jose sent to YBI
-19 December 1868: Special Order 352, Commanding General of the Presidio has Alcatraz Commander send detachment of 1 sergeant & 10 privates under an Alcatraz officer take post on Yerba Buena Island
-1871 - 1892: post used as a QM depot
-1892: post transferred to US Engineer Dept
-12 April 1898: Navy establishes Training Station on YBI
-13 April 1898: Congress okays funds for a Naval Training Station for apprentices, and McKinley sets aside part of YBI for it. Prior to buildings, 175 Cadets (15- 17) lived aboard USS Pensacola, with its crew
-1898: Picked up mines of Bay cleaned up and kept in storehouse
-1904: 6000 trees planted, including Montery Cypress, Montery Pine and Eucalyptus
-1908: Navy decides there’s too little space and looks for another west coast training site
-13,000 men trained on YBI during WWI
-1923: training moved to SD, Navy site of 107.3 acres used as Receiving Ship (USS Boston), with 6000- 7000 men passing through annually.Army Coast Artillery Corps had 11.1 acres on northeast point as mine depot and the Lighthouse service had 29.9 acres on southeastern point
-10 June 1951: Goat Island officially changed name to Yerba Buena Island
ANGEL ISLAND
-1775: damaged San Carlos anchors in Ayala cove in 1775 while Lt. de Ayala surveys the bay
-post 1808: Russian sea otter storehouse built
-1814: 16 gun HMS Raccoon repaired in Ayala Cove
-1839: Governor gives island (740 acres) to Don Antonio Maria Osio for cattle (houses built for herders)
-1849: Cmdr Cadwalder Ringgold names 5 points during charting expedition. Point Blunt (Lt. Simon F. Blunt), Point Campbell (A. H. Campbell, civil engineer), Point Knox (Lt. Samuel R. Knox), Point Stuart for hydrographer Frederick D. Stuart and Point Simpton. Perle’s beach named for longtime resident James F. Perle
-06 November 1850: Presidential Order declares Angel Island for public use
-1851: High-quality sandstone carved out of cliffs above Quarry Point for use at Mare Island and elsewhere, like San Francisco's original Bank of California
-While San Quentin Prison being built, island watched over state's convicted criminals as they languished in hulks of ships anchored offshore. Ease with which prisoners either bribed or forced their way to freedom won Angel Island an unfavorable reputation
-1858: Army Engineers survey Point Blunt and Point Stuart for possible battery placement
-1860: Presidential Order declares Angel Island a military reserve
-22 September 1863: B Company, 3rd Artillery, led by John L. Tiernon arrives from Fort Point, under command of Colonel de Russy
-24 August 1863: Captain R. S. Williamson of the Army Engineers surveys the island for temporary battery emplacements and recommends Point Stuart, Point Knox and Point Blunt
-September 1863: Army Engineers arrive to start building batteries and quarters for for engineer employees
-01 November 1863: troops on Angel Island to build fortifications
-1863: Bake House built. Later becomes Officer housing
-1863: wooden hospial built at Ayala Cove
-1863: Camp Reynolds built (known as West Garrison when whole island called Fort McDowell)
-June 1864: roads to Point Knox and Point Stuart finished
-1864: hospital built near Racoon Cove, which becomes known as Hospital Cove
-1864: Camp Reynolds opens. Next to quarry (?). Honors John F Reynolds, Union General felled by a sniper in Gettysburg. Artillery batteries built near the camp and at Point Stuart, Point Knox and Point Blunt. 5 of the guns intended for Point Blunt used for a “water battery” at Camp Reynolds
-1864 - 1865: Camp Blunt (on Point Blunt) built
-1865: Company of infantry landed at Point Blunt, bringing tents for temporary shelter, and established themselves on eastern side of the island. Camp Thomas was at Point Blunt.
-May 1865: Point Blunt parapet collapses, causing withdrawal of personnel. 3 Officers and 120 man Enlisted barracks to $Camp Reynolds for overflow
-April - October 1866: Camp Reynolds temporarily abandoned
-1866: Point Blunt abandoned as useless. Housing (just inland) and site (with wharf just NE of point) to Camp Reynolds control from Alcatraz. Between Camp Reynolds and Camp Blunt was Camp Thomas, on bluff overlooking bay. Used 60s-ww1 as tented overflow.
-late 1860s: an abandoned seven-room house near Point Blunt, built by Pacific Mail Steamship Company used by representative of island's owner in 1850's Captain Waterman. Leased by discharged soldier John Rafferty, became known as Rafferty’s Roost. Nuisance to military authorities, "became the subject of a conflagration in 1867 without detriment to the morale of the locality."
-late 1860s: Camp Reynolds becomes infantry camp, serving as depot for recruits and staging area \for troops serving in campaigns against Apache, Sioux, Modoc, and other Indian tribes
-20 August 1867: Peninsula Island (bka Belvedere) established as a military preserve by President Johnson
-1867: Peninsula Island to caretaker status
-1867: tent hospital at Camp Reynolds
-1869: wood frame hospital replces canvas one
-1869: Battery Steward (north corner) and Battery Knox (south) in place. Indian Prisoners from Arizona campaigns held there
-1869: parapets at Point Blunt slid into water and abandoned
-1869: Headquarters of 12th Infantry Regiment located on island. First Infantry located there until Spanish American War, but twice were ordered there on field duties
-1876: 12 acre garden tended daily by 4 prison crew from Alcatraz
-1876: Over 200 soldiers and church, bakery, blacksmith, shoemaker, laundry, barber, trading store, and photographer
-1877: Point Ione napmed on Army map
-1879: HQ, 12 Inf Regt leaves
-1880: twenty Chinese shrimp fishermen give China Cove it’s name
-1881: two story wooden buildings (Officers Quarters 11 & 12) set up at Camp Reynolds. Constructed on Yerba Buena Island 67/68
-25 November 1882: Quarantine station okayed
-1885: loss of Peninsula Island as a sub post
-1886: construction of Batteries Ledyard, Wallace and Drew begun on southwest side of island. $91,000
-22 December 1888: revocable license to Treasury Department for 10 acres at Hospital Cove for a Quarantine Station.
-24 April 1889: Quarantine Station acres transferred
-1889: construction begins on mine casemate on Windmill Ravine on Mortar Hill. Electrically set off harbor mines
-late 1880s: Camp Reynolds’ Indian War tenants depart
-March 1890: construction of Quarantine Station begun by San Francisco Bridge Company
-10 October 1890: Quarantine Station finished
-1891: mine casemate on Mortar hill finished
-01 January 1891: watchman and engineer report to Quarantine Station
-28 January 1891: Quarantine Station buildings to government from SF Bridge Company
-27 April 1891: steamer China the first ship quarantined at Ayala Cove by US Treasury’s Marine Hospital Service
-29 April 1891: first patients from ship China to station
-May 1892: smallpox infected Oceanic arrives. Oceanic owner, Oriental and Occidental Steramship COmpany gets permission to build temporary barracks (and attached kitchen). Housed 576, later to Hospital Service
-01 May 1892: Quarantine station opens at China Cove (now North Garrison), abandoned when the U.S. Public Health Service (which succeeded the old U.S. Marine Health Service) moved to San Francisco. 40 buildings, including 400 bed detention barracks. USN Omaha provided fumigating steam
-June 1893: Fence surrounding Quarantine Station built
-1893: end of construction of Quarantine Station
-1893: Army gives 14 more acres to Bureau of Public health and Marine Hospital Service’s Quarantine Station, bringing it to 25 acres
-1897: mining casemate built at Quarry Point, matching existing earlier one near Mortar Hill.
-01 April 1898: construction starts on Battery Drew on Mortar Hill. Honors Lt Alfred W of the 12th Infantry, KIA during the Philipine Insurrection
-20 June 1898: construction ends on Battery Drew (2- 8 hour shifts)
-20 December 1898: US Quarantine Station established on 28.6 acres
-1898: caretaker detachment moves in
-1898: Fred Perle Sr ceases dairy ranching, becomes fort blacksmith
-1899: QM station and Pacific Base Replacement Station established
-June 1899: Detention camp site selected
-Fall 1899: Detention Camp established on east side of Island, next to quarry, to house troops returning from Philippine Insurrection stricken with, or exposed to, contagious diseases. The first Army unit to occupy the camp was 31st Volunteer Infantry, with smallpox. Site could accommodate 2 Regiments (12 Companies each, plus Headquarters)
-04 April 1900: by War Department Orders #43, entire installation on Angel Island officially named Fort McDowell (honoring Major General Irwin McDowell, served in the Mexican-American War and led Union troops in first battle of Bull Run in the Civil War. Died 85 in SF). Order referred to various installations with geographic designations. Camp Reynolds thus became West Garrison, and newer site dubbed East Garrison. Alcatraz labor built Eastern Garrison and Western Garrison
-May 1901: Fort McDowell becomes debarkation discharge facility for U.S. soldiers returning from Philippines. Detention Camp moved to Point Simpton and Discharge Camp (opened NV, taking 6 months to build) erected near quarry site in its stead. To help keep the discharged men from temptation, railroad ticket office and Wells Fargo Bank constructed. At this site, men processed for separation, given final pay, and mustered out of service.
-May 1901: Batteries Wallace (Lt Robert B ~, 2d Calvary; KIA Luzon 99) on Point Knox and [disappearing] Leylard (Lt August C, 6th Infantry, KIA Phillipines 99) finished
-May 1901: Detention Camp discontinued. Soon becomes Recruit Depot, to keep those soldiers away from returning veterans
-early 1902: Engineers hand over Wallace 9built on site of Camp Reynold’s resevoir) to Artillery
-1902: Batteries Leylard, Wallace and Drew (remains visible today) in operation
-1904: Army okays Department of Commerce and Labor to locate an Immigration Station on the island
-1905: 10 eastern acres (near China Cove) to Bureaqu of Immigration
-1905: more than 87,000 men had been processed through Angel Island facilities
-1905: Detention Camp closes
-1905: Immigration Station at China Cove construction starts
-18 April 1906: minor damage to island. 22d Infantry to SF (landed at foot of Market, progressed to Phelan Building)
-1907: Leylard, Wallace & Drew decommissioned as obsolete
-1907: Department of Recruits leaves Presidio for Angel Island as the Recruit and Replacement Depot, Fort McDowell
-1908: Immigration Station construction finished, but opening delayed due to lack of funds
-1908: 4.5 additional acres to Bureau of Immigration for employee housing
-1909: major building on Discharge Camp. Fort McDowell expanded into a Recruit Depot. Tents erected on parade ground at old Camp Reynolds site and on Point Blunt. Construction starts on East Garrison
-1909: US Quarantine Station becomes INS Station, lateÅr developed into a temporary detention area for WWI enemy aliens
-1909: Island HQ leaves Camp Reynolds after 46 years for west side of island. Camp Reynolds becomes West Garrison
-Summer 1909: just west of quarry (where Rafferty's Roost and Camp Summer were) began construction of East Garrison
-21January or 27 April 1910: Angel Island Immigration Immigration Station opens
-21January 1910: at 9AM, 101 people (84 Chinese men, 1 Chinese woman, 3 Japanese and 4 East Indians) leave the Pacific Mail wharf, where they were kept in a wooden cage.
-1910: HQ of Fort McDowell moved from East Garrison to West Garrison
-1910: North Garrison Quarantine station becomes INS facility
-1910 - 1911: Fort McDowell expanded into major facility for receiving recruits and processing military personnel for overseas assignment. Construction included 600-person barracks, mess hall, and hospital. During next few years, construction made Fort McDowell world's largest and most elaborate military induction center
-1913: East Garrison expanded, serving as Training Base for 2500 troops
-1914: Quarantine Station bathed / disinfected 452 enemy aliens at the Immigration Station
-1915: Batteries closed and removed from defense plans
-1917: Immigration Station (North Garrison) pressed into service as prison for "enemy aliens" (mostly German citizens) arrested on board ships in West Coast harbors. Men later transferred to permanent detention quarters in North Carolina
-1917: Camp Reynolds pressed into service and tents erected. Tents also put up on site of Camp Thomas, Civil War era camp near Point Blunt
-1918: Angel Island a debarkation and discharge point for returning troops. Through 20s and 30s, McDowell inducted, discharged, or handled transfer of about 40,000 men per year -more than any other military post during those years. Until 1941, all extternal bases were in the Pacific, McDowell the only western processing station. Quarantine Station fumigated returning Army transports, and cleaned clothing/ bedding of Army hospital
-1919: 500 troops from Siberian Expedition ‘cleaned’ at Quarantine Station
-1919: Federal troops called in to quell food riot at Immigration Station. Detainees didn’t eat for 3 days after
-1920: Recruit and Replacement Depot becomes Discharge and Replacement Depot
-1922: Quarantine Station substation established on Mieggs Wharf (ships stopped between Forts Point and Mason inspected by visitting crew)
-1922: Detaineees form Zizhihui (self governing association)
-1922: Quarry closes. High-quality sandstone carved out of the cliffs above Quarry Point, reducing cliff to present-day site of parade ground at Fort McDowell
-1922: Discharge and Replacement Depot becomes Overseas Discharge and Replacement Bureau
-1934: Alcatraz Gardens close when Alcatraz stops being an Army prison
-1935: Boats make nine trips to a day to San Francisco
-1935: Quarantine Station attendants quarters/ mess hall built (now visitors center)
-1937: Battery Drew magazine becomes a store place for TNT, used in harbor mining
-11 August 1940: fire destroys Immigration Station Administration Building. Deportees to SF County Jail, some detainees (& Columbus crew) to Quarantine Station
-September 1940: Immigration Station HQ to SF
-05 November 1940: North Garrison INS facility closes. 125 Chinese men and 19 Chinese women moved to 801 Silver Avenue, as a temporary measure
-February 1941: former Immigration Station to Army, as North Garrison, with new construction along southern border
-08 December 1941: POW Processing Center opens at North Garrison (capacity for 550). Expansion adds buildings for a total of around 50 (6 now stand)
-1941: former Immigration Stuation area renamed North Garrison
-Spring 1942: Immigration Station to Sharp Park
-1942: Quartermaster substation leaves Ft Mason docks for foot of Hyde Street
-1942: 216th Antiaircraft regiment sends Battery to island. Four 90mm guns at Batteries Drew, Wallace, Leylard and Wallace, plus another in an open area. Searchlight on Mount Ida.
WW2
-Fort McDowell sent 20,000- 80,000 to the Pacific during WW2, and saw 87,000 coming from the Pacific after service in WW2
-Fort McDowell becomes part of the San Francisco Port of Embarkation, together with Fort Mason, the Oakland Army Terminal, and Camp Stoneman
-Temporary barracks and other structures built, anti-aircraft artillery and searchlight station constructed and manned atop the mountain, and large new mess hall and other facilities were constructed in Immigration Station area
-up to 3 movie seatings in 900 seat auditorium
-17 February 1944: 6 new bowling lanes built, next to Finance Building. Compliented lanes at PX
-May 1944: 60 Italian workers arrive from 900 in Oakland
-Public address news announcements at noon to North Garrison and East Garrison chowhalls
-1944: Immigration Station to Appraiser’s Building (630 Sansome)
-March 1945: 160 more Italians arrive, united with others into 24th Italian Quartermaster Company
-November 1945: 24th Italian QM Co disbanded, troops to Italy
-December 1945: record 23,632 returning troops go through
-February 1946: Fort McDowell on “temporary inactive” status. Capable of handling 1000 troops on a weeks notice
-28 August 1946: flag lowered for last time at Fort McDowell. Island t%urned over to U.S. District Engineer. 235 buildings existed
-29 August 1946: Garrison leaves for Camp Stoneman
-20 September 1946: War Department declares island and installations surplus
-1946: Quarantine Station declared surplus, functions moved to SF
-1946: 282 permanent party moved to Camp Knight, leaving 4 Officers, 120 Enlisted and 9 civilians
-1947: 131 dead civilians and soldiers (some from 06) moved to Golden Gate National Cemetery
-1948: War Assets Administration gives responsibility for the island to the Department of the Interior
-1949: Quarantine Station Headquarters moves to SF, property going to the Army
-1950: US Navy Angel Island Coil Range Facility (bka Degaussing Station) opens. Galvonometer readings of ships (from indicators on the bottom of the water on the east side of the island) given to Bureau of Naval Weapons. Used buildings 210, 211 and 221 of former North Garrison.
-1954: California Division of Beaches and Parks assumes management of 36.82 acres of Hospital Cove area for a historic park
-1954: Army returns to Angel Island, this time to establish a Nike missile base. Old hospital at East Garrison remodeled and served as headquarters. About 100 officers and enlisted men. 12 launchers put in
-1955: Nike site established. Angel Island battery had twelve launchers on the southeast corner of the island (underground silos housed missiles, on southeast tip of the island on a point above Point Blunt) with ready room and radar on Mount Ida. 3 launching stations, each with 4 missile launchers. Top of Mount Ida cut off for helipad. Control from Command Post atop Mount Tamalpais. 100 troops and 16 families
-1957: state park closes for 3 months. Most of the 24 Ayala Cove Quarantine Station buildings razed
-1958: state park gets 184 additional acres from Bureau of Land Management. Mountaintop rechristened Mount Caroline Livermore
-1962: Nike missiles obsolete. Within year, Army decommissioned base and removed personnel. Happened one year short of 100 years from time construction began at Camp Reynolds
-1962: Degaussing Station closes. Used North Garrison buildings
-December 1963: with last SF Nike site shuttered, all of Angel Island [except Coast Guard facilities on Point Blunt and Point Stuart] to state
-1963: 110 Quarantine Station buildings razed
-1963: Coast Guard burns down Pt Knox lighthouse
-1965: California Beaches & Park System opens island to the public
-1966: (Northb Garrison?) China Cove becomes Winslow Cove, honoring Charles A. Winslow, chairman of Angel Island Foundation
-1969: Hospital Cove rededicated as Ayala Cove.
-1973: almost all of the 1942 era buildings razed at Hospital Cove
-No cars on island, 8 car garage maintained on Fort Mason
-former bachelor officers quarters (now park museum), surgeon's home and assistant surgeon's home now used by state park personnel
-camp newspaper: The Salute
-April- September: soldiers had Wednesday afternoon off, and would play afternoon baseball (as they did weekend afternoons). First ferry dropped off teams to play at Alcatraz.
baseball team: Angel Island Indians
-1 acre of Point Blunt and 13.2 acres of Quarry Point within San Francisco
-Currently, telephone and electricity from Tiburon, water from Berkeley
ALCATRAZ
-1775: Spanish explorer Juan Manuel de Ayala was to sail into San áFrancisco Bay - expedition mapped the bay, and named one of the three islands Alcatraces
-site of the first operational lighthouse on the West Coast of the United States
-06 November 1850: Alcatraz set aside for military
-early 1850s: Citadel built
-late 1850s: first prisoners arrive
-1853: Army construction begins on Alcatraz
-1858: Army construction ends
-1859: Army garrisons island, bringing prisoners from 3rd Artillery
-1859 - 1895: an Army Camp
-1861: Guardhouse designated as military prison for the Department of the Pacific
-1867: wooden cellhouse torn down and replaced by one made of brick
-07 August 1895: 19 Hopi sent to Alcatraz
-03 September 1895: 19 Hopi leave
-19AP74: Alcatraz barracks burn
-1895- 1934: a military prison
-1889: casemate adapted for mines
-01 December 1897: Alcatraz made "saluting station". Together with Fort Point and Lime Point, Alcatraz forms a "triangle of defense" designed to protect the entrance to the bay
-1907: dubbed US Military Prison, Alcatraz Island
-1908- 1909: 50 year old Citadel torn down
-1909 - 1911: Citadel basement used as prison foundation, built by prisoners
-1911: new cell house finished
-1911: opened as Pacific Branch, US Disciplinary Barracks for US Army, closed 1912.
-1915: renamed Pacific Branch, Disciplinary Barracks
-WWI: Conscientious Objectors (including Quakers) kept on Alcatraz, along with German Consul Franz Bopp
-1933: Transferred to Justice Department for Fed Bureau Prisons use
-01 January 1934: Federal Bureau of Prisons opens
-12 July 1934 (?): PBUSDBA closes
-WW2: prisoners did laundry of area installations
-1945: prisoner John Giles dresses as a Staff Sergeant and boards ferry to Angel Island, where he debarks and is captured
-1963: Alcatraz closes as a prison
+eras: Fort Alcatraz 1859 - 1907, Military Prison 1861 - 1933, Federal Prison 1933 - 1963, Park 1973 >