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Fort Miley Military Reservation

Fort Miley Military Reservation
Coast Artilliary Insignia.png
Near San Francisco, California in United States
Fort Miley ordnance storehouse.jpg
Ordnance storehouse, the only Fort Miley building from before 1934
Fort Miley is located in San Francisco County
Fort Miley
Fort Miley
Fort Miley is located in California
Fort Miley
Fort Miley
Fort Miley is located in the US
Fort Miley
Fort Miley
Coordinates 37°46′55.72″N 122°30′19.95″W / 37.7821444°N 122.5055417°W / 37.7821444; -122.5055417Coordinates: 37°46′55.72″N 122°30′19.95″W / 37.7821444°N 122.5055417°W / 37.7821444; -122.5055417
Type coastal defense
Area 54 acres (21.85 ha)
Site information
Owner United States Army
Controlled by United States Army Coast Artillery Corps
Site history
Built 1899 (1899)
Fate Decommission 1948
Location San Francisco, California
NRHP Reference # 80000371
Added to NRHP May 23, 1980


The Fort Miley Military Reservation, in San Francisco, California, sits on Point Lobos (not to be confused with Point Lobos near Carmel-by-the-Sea), one of the outer headlands on the southern side of the Golden Gate. Much of the site is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, while the grounds and buildings that were converted into the San Francisco VA Medical Center are administered by the Veterans Health Administration of the US Department of Veterans Affairs.

In 1885, United States Secretary of War William C. Endicott, heading the Board of Fortifications, issued a report necessitating the coastal defense of San Francisco Bay. By September 1890, Colonel George Mendel, the army engineer officer in charge of defense construction in the San Francisco region, had selected for fortification a 73-acre (29.5 ha) tract of land near Point Lobos which belonged to the City of San Francisco and since 1868 had been the Golden Gate Cemetery. After much intrigue and various maneuverings, the Federal government secured in 1891 condemnation of 54 acres (21.85 ha) for $75,000.

It was still some years before the army did anything with its new Point Lobos Military Reservation. The Spanish–American War of 1898 provided the needed stimulus and that year the first two buildings were built there to house a small Signal Corps detachment whose mission is now long forgotten, though it may have been to provide a warning of the approach of enemy ships during that war.


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