Golden Gate - Fort Miley - San Francisco, CA
Posted by: 
DougK
N 37° 46.849 W 122° 30.594
10S E 543157 N 4181609
Fort Miley is former military base, now part of the National Park System. There are trails, terrific view and picnic tables and the land is shared with a Veterans' Hospital.
Waymark Code: WM8JG6
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 04/10/2010
Views: 7
Fort Miley sits on San Francisco's Point Lobos on the outer headlands of the Golden Gate, near Land's End. Much of the Fort Miley site is part of the
Golden Gate National Recreation Area, while the remainder of the grounds were converted into a Veterans Hospital, administered by the Veterans Health Administration of the VA.
The land was acquired by the Army in 1893 and the construction of fortifications began in 1899. In 1900, Fort Miley was named after Lieutenant Colonel John D. Miley, who had died in Manila, Philippine Islands, the previous year. By 1903, the building of Battery Chester with three 12-inch rifled guns was completed.
Most of the original Army buildings were demolished in 1934 to allow the Fort Miley Veterans Administration Hospital to be built. During World War II the guns were modernized with two 6-inch rapid-fire guns protected by steel shields.
At Point Lobos, two original shell-damaged sections of the USS San Francisco flank a granite monument commemorating those who perished at Guadalcanal on November 12-13, 1942.