Talk:Fort Mason

WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008

Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 19:50, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

File:Fort Mason Center and Downtown San Francisco.jpg to appear as POTD soon

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Fort Mason Center and Downtown San Francisco.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on March 27, 2011. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2011-03-27. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! howcheng {chat} 18:46, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Picture of the day

A panoramic view of Fort Mason Center, part of the Fort Mason complex in San Francisco, California, US, with Russian Hill in the background (behind the sailboat). Fort Mason served as a U.S. Army post for more than 100 years, initially as a coastal defense site and subsequently as a military port facility until 1965. It is currently registered as a National Historic Landmark district.Photo: Mila Zinkova

Fort Mason was not the San Francisco Port of Embarkation

While it was the core and HQ the redirect from "San Francisco Port of Embarkation" to this article is misleading at best. The SFPOE was second only to the New York Port of Embarkation in scope, size, troop and cargo shipped with functions far beyond the peacetime ones of the Fort Mason center. Need to develop the SFPOE as a separate article linking here. Palmeira (talk) 22:27, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

New article covering the San Francisco Port of Embarkation created. Pointer from this article. Some revision here is probably needed as it takes a modern, partly erase history approach. For Mason had a long history, becoming an important Army port facility well before creation of the POE in 1932. The fort itself was dwarfed by the full SFPOE set of some 13 facilities including the massive one in Oakland. Palmeira (talk) 00:32, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Missing Spanish-era history

Fort Mason was the site of a Spanish fortification, the Bateria de Yerba Buena, from 1797 to about 1806: https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/historyculture/bateria-de-yerba-buena.htm . Also, the northernmost land point at Fort Mason is Black Point, historically having the earlier names Punta Medanos and Punta de San José, which were important geographic points in the early history of San Francisco. Peter G Werner (talk) 23:53, 27 November 2024 (UTC)