Fort Point National Historic Site

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Fort Point, known historically as the Castillo de San Joaquín (Spanish for "Saint Joachim's Castle") is a masonry seacoast fortification located on the southern side of the Golden Gate at the entrance to San Francisco Bay. It is also the geographic name of the promontory upon which the fort and the southern approach of the Golden Gate Bridge were constructed. The fort was completed just before the American Civil War by the United States Army, to defend San Francisco Bay against hostile warships. The fort is now protected as Fort Point National Historic Site, a United States National Historic Site administered by the National Park Service as a unit of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. It is now popular as a tourist viewing point of the Golden Gate Bridge directly over top of it.

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The interior of Fort Point under the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, USA. The criss-cross shadow is that of the bridge

Casemate from the Civil War Era at Fort Point National Historic Site, Presidio of San Francisco, September 2019

At the Golden Gate Bridge deck, looking toward Fort Point.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Point,_San_Francisco" class="extiw" title="w:Fort Point, San Francisco">Fort Point</a>. View from under bridge.

<p>View north of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Fort_Point_National_Historic_Site" title="Category:Fort Point National Historic Site">Fort Point National Historic Site</a>, with the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Golden_Gate_Bridge" title="Category:Golden Gate Bridge">Golden Gate Bridge</a> under construction, in San Francisco (1934).
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<ul><li><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Golden_Gate_Bridge_(HAER_images)" title="Category:Golden Gate Bridge (HAER images)"><b>HAER</b>—Historic American Engineering Record images of the Golden Gate Bridge</a>.</li></ul>

<p>Photographed by and copyright of (c) David Corby (<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Miskatonic" title="User:Miskatonic">User:Miskatonic</a>, uploader) 2006
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These cannons are in Fort Point. Fort Point sits under the Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco California taken February 01 2006

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Point,_San_Francisco" class="extiw" title="w:Fort Point, San Francisco">Fort Point</a> nestled beneath the Golden Gate Bridge.

Circular stairway at Fort Point. Photographed around 1975. Scanned from slide in 2009.

Plaque declaring "this property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior"

San Francisco from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marin_Headlands" class="extiw" title="en:Marin Headlands">en:Marin Headlands</a>

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