Presidio Army Museum - Reviews from across the web
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Cultural History - Presidio of San Francisco The often fog-shrouded Presidio of San Francisco has a long and extensive cultural history spanning back thousands of years, to when it was the home to native people known as the Ohlone. The Spanish arrived in 1776 to establish the northernmost outpost of their empire in western North America. The P... nps.gov
Historic California Posts: Presidio of San Francisco When he visited San Francisco in 1792, English Captain George Vancouver was permitted to visit Presidio. He found it "a square area, whose sides were about 200 yards in length, enclosed by a mud wall, and resembling a pound for cattle. Above this wall the thatched roofs of their low small house... militarymuseum.org
Presidio Army Museum - San Francisco - Reviews of Presidio Army Museum - TripAdvisor Now part of the Golden Gate National Park, this museum was a major command center during the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II ... tripadvisor.com
Proposed Presidio museum would be modern addition to historic military site If the Presidio is to be a historic park, one of the rare ones in the West, what we want here is an educational engine that offers a chance for people to learn history in a way that they don't have anywhere else in the United States, said Gary Widman, president of the Historical Association, which w... sfgate.com
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