BGuthrie Photos: CA -- San Francisco -- Presidio -- Visitor Center

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SFPREV_180714_028.JPG: Presidio Officers' Club
2. SFPREV_180714_031.JPG: Rodman Gun
3. SFPREV_180714_034.JPG: Tule House
4. SFPREV_180714_038.JPG: Western Pond Turtle
5. SFPREV_180714_040.JPG: Main Post Where the Presidio Began
6. SFPREV_180714_049.JPG: Main Post Heart of the Presidio
7. SFPREV_180714_055.JPG: San Francisco National Cemetery
8. SFPREV_180714_058.JPG: Shaping the Golden Gate
9. SFPREV_180714_061.JPG: Coastal Defense Protecting the Golden Gate
10. SFPREV_180714_064.JPG: Spanish-Mexican Era 1776-1846 El Castillo de San Joaquin was built in 1794. This adobe fortification protected the bay entrance from attack by sea and was armed with bronze and iron cannons over 100 years old at the time.
11. SFPREV_180714_067.JPG: Fort Point 1847-1868 The U.S. Army built a brick fortress at the water's edge to protect San Francisco during the Gold Rush. Fort Point was occupied as the Civil War broke out, but new rifled artillery could pulverize a brick fort.
12. SFPREV_180714_070.JPG: Batteries East and West 1869-1890 The army replaced brick forts bristling with cannons with scattered guns in earthwork batteries of masonry and dirt that could absorb incoming fire. Batteries East and West were an inexpensive, temporary solution as new guns evolved.
13. SFPREV_180714_072.JPG: The Big Guns 1891-1950 This era of coast defense consisted of large steel rifled cannons bolted to concrete batteries. Mounted on both sides of the Golden Gate, these very accurate guns could fire far out to sea. They defended the bay during World War II, but air power and amphibious landing craft soon made them obsolete.
14. SFPREV_180714_074.JPG: Cold War Defenses 1951-1974 During the Cold War, the United States relied on Nike anti-aircraft missiles to protect its cities from attack by Soviet bombers. One of the twelve missile sites built in the Bay Area was in the Presidio. The missiles were removed after inter-continental ballistic missiles replaced bombers.
15. SFPREV_180714_076.JPG: Passing Through the Golden Gate
16. SFPREV_180714_080.JPG: Golden Gate Guarding the Golden Gate
17. SFPREV_180714_083.JPG: The Guardhouse Building 210
18. SFPREV_180714_086.JPG: At the Rugged Edge of the World
19. SFPREV_180714_089.JPG: Native Ohlone at Crissy Field
20. SFPREV_180714_091.JPG: Main Post
21. SFPREV_180714_094.JPG: Crissy Field
22. SFPREV_180714_098.JPG: Crissy Field and the Dawn of Aviation
23. SFPREV_180714_099.JPG: History in the Making
24. SFPREV_180714_112.JPG: Crissy Field Cleanup
25. SFPREV_180714_115.JPG: Crissy Field Center Shaping Tomorrow's Environmental Leaders
26. SFPREV_180714_118.JPG: Crissy Field A Transformed Landscape
27. SFPREV_180714_121.JPG: Planting a Forest
28. SFPREV_180714_124.JPG: Tennessee Hollow Restoring a Watershed
29. SFPREV_180714_126.JPG: El Polin Spring Fresh Water for the Ages
30. SFPREV_180714_129.JPG: Mountain Lake Jewel of the Presidio
31. SFPREV_180714_133.JPG: Southern Wilds Island of Refuge
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Wikipedia Description: Presidio of San Francisco
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The Presidio of San Francisco (originally, El Presidio Real de San Francisco or Royal Presidio of San Francisco) is a park on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula in the City and County of San Francisco. It is operated by the National Park Service of the United States as a part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The largest area "Main Post" is managed by the Presidio Trust, a congressionally chartered nonprofit organization. The park is characterized by many wooded areas, hills, and scenic vistas overlooking the San Francisco Bay.

The Presidio was recognized by Congress as a National Historic Landmark District, the highest historic designation that can be given in the U.S. This designation is given to a collection of structures and their related landscape which have nationally important historical integrity. The Presidio Trust Act calls for "preservation of the cultural and historic integrity of the Presidio for public use." The Act also requires that the Presidio Trust be financially self-sufficient by 2013. The result of these two imperatives are conflicts between maximizing income by leasing historic buildings, permitting public use despite most structures being rented privately, and preservation of the integrity of the National Historic Landmark District by maintaining the historic "sense of place" despite new construction, competing pressures for natural habitat restoration, and requirements for commercial purposes that impede public access. As of 2007, there was only a rudimentary visitors' center to orient visitors to the Presidio's history.
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