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Fort Funston, Panama Mounts for 155mm Guns, Skyline Boulevard & Great Highway, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

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Fort Funston, Panama Mounts for 155mm Guns, Skyline Boulevard & Great Highway, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

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Summary

Significance: The Panama mounts of Battery Bluff are significant as they are a contributing feature to the Fort Funston Historic District which is considered eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. The Panama mounts were the only guns of its type to be emplaced in the San Francisco Harbor Defenses.
Survey number: HAER CA-193-A
Building/structure dates: 1937 Initial Construction

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Date

1969 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Grogan, Brian, photographer
Keyer, Darlene, historian
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Location

San Francisco, California, United States37.75088, -122.50819
Google Map of 37.7508788, -122.5081868
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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