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Fort Mason circa 1865

View west to Black Point (today's Fort Mason) from future Aquatic Park. [Black Point, San Francisco. 699.] Army buildings and former squatters' houses turned into officers' residences on hill. Children playing in waves at approximately foot of today's Larkin St.
Carleton Watkins (Marilyn Blaisdell Collection / Courtesy of a Private Collector)

Fort Mason Fort Mason

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