The Frontier They Want Us to Forget By the late 1960s, the only Frontier structures that still remained were two war-era public schools, Barnard Elementary and the Midway Continuation High School. The city council had …
Fort Rosecrans, 1910. The peninsula is open to attack from the harbor and ocean side.
Posted April 28, 1977
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The gun emplacements of Point Loma
Construction of the gun batteries began in 1873, but Congress appropriated no additional funds for seacoast defense for about the next 20 years, so construction was not resumed until close to the turn of the century.
April 28, 1977