Recent photo of an emplacement of Battery Davis. Some of the earth covering the fort has eroded.Steps from the southwest corner of the parking area to the beach.A 16-inch gun on the road to the fortAssembling a 16-inch gun carriage at the fortPanama mount fallen from cliff due to erosion. Another mount can be seen at the top of the cliff.
Fort Funston is a former harbor defense installation located in the southwestern corner of San Francisco. Formerly known as the Lake Merced Military Reservation, the fort is now a protected area within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) and is used widely as an off-leash dog park. It was named in honor of Frederick N. Funston (1865–1917), a Major General in the United States Army with strong connections to San Francisco, and included several artillery batteries. The fort is located on Skyline Boulevard at John Muir Drive, west of Lake Merced.
The fort was constructed upon windswept headlands along the Pacific coast and Ocean Beach below, above steep sandstone cliffs that provide a nesting habitat for a colony of bank swallows (Riparia riparia). The last remnants of a sand dune ecosystem that once covered the western half of San Francisco grows along the top of the headlands, with trailheads forming part of the California Coastal Trail that runs through San Francisco County.[1]
^The Coastal Trail is temporarily closed due to erosion.
FortFunston is a former harbor defense installation located in the southwestern corner of San Francisco. Formerly known as the Lake Merced Military Reservation...
Frederick Funston (November 9, 1865 – February 19, 1917), also known as Fighting Fred Funston, was a general in the United States Army, best known for...
War I resulted in many changes at Fort Riley. Facilities were greatly expanded, and a cantonment named Camp Funston was built 5 miles (8 km) east of the...
Camp Funston is a U.S. Army training camp located on Fort Riley, southwest of Manhattan, Kansas. The camp was named for Brigadier General Frederick Funston...
Sacramento Valley and at two coastal sites, Año Nuevo State Park and FortFunston. Showing dark breast band Adult at nest site, Dziwnówek, Poland Active...
Fort Mason, in San Francisco, California originated as a coastal defense site during the American Civil War. The nucleus of the property was owned by John...
is a list of forts and camps in California, established by military, commercial and other interests. Geography of California List of forts The California...
as an armory in 1976, when the National Guard moved its facilities to FortFunston. From the 1920s through the 1940s, the Mission Armory served as San Francisco's...
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at FortFunston, San Francisco. The 1986 record was broken by Erin Hemmings with a throw of 1,333 feet (406 meters) on July 14, 2003 at FortFunston. Hemmings'...
Hemmings who threw an Aerobie 406.3 m (1,333 ft) on 14 July 2003 at FortFunston, San Francisco. Long-distance boomerang throwers aim to have the boomerang...
the island, work which continued until 1858, when the initial version of Fort Alcatraz was complete. The island's first garrison, numbering about 200 soldiers...
Fort Point, known historically as the Castillo de San Joaquín (Spanish for "Saint Joachim's Castle") is a masonry seacoast fortification located on the...
its natural salt marsh ecosystem. The GGNRA also administers FortFunston, Lands End, Fort Mason, and Alcatraz. The National Park Service separately administers...
University, Lakeshore Alternative Elementary School, Stonestown Galleria, FortFunston and the Pacific Ocean. The San Francisco Police Department shooting range...
the second 16-inch battery on the West Coast, after Battery Davis at FortFunston. The battery was manned at all times with the men on each shift living...
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from the Air (2014) by Gary Griggs and Deepika Shrestha Ross. Photos of FortFunston near San Francisco were used by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to...
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et al. "San Andreas Fault and Coastal Geology from Half Moon Bay to FortFunston: Crustal Motion, Climate Change, and Human Activity" (PDF). United States...
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