Cultural Landscape Report for Forts Baker, Barry, and Cronkhite, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Volume 1: Site History, National Park Service
Auwaerter J and Curry GW. 2016. Cultural Landscape Report for Forts Baker, Barry, and Cronkhite, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Volume 1: Site History, National Park Service. Cultural Landscape Report. GOGA61132825. National Park Service. Boston, MA
The site history traces the development and use of the landscape from the time that it was home to native peoples through European settlement, military development, and conservation as public parkland. The site history is organized into five periods defined by changes in land use and landscape character based on documented historic contexts. These include the period prior to American takeover of California in 1846; the initial period of American military ownership and development between 1846 and 1890; the Endicott-Taft period between 1890 and the U.S. entry into World War I in 1917; the period from World War I through the end of World War II in 1945; the Cold War period from 1945 to the establishment of Golden Gate national recreation area in 1972; and the time from park establishment to the present (2015) during national Park Service Administration. The body of each historical period consists of a narrative of the physical development of the landscape that is followed by a summary of the landscape changes organized by landscape characteristics, including natural systems, spatial organization, circulation, vegetation, buildings and structures, and small-scale features.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Auwaerter, John; Curry, George
- Date of Issue
- 2016
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- GOGA , PWR
- Keywords
- California, Cold War, conservation, Endicott-Taft, evaluation, Fort Baker, Fort Barry Military Reservation, Fort Cronkhite, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, historic sites, history, LCSH: Cultural Landscapes, management, Marin Peninsula, military bases, recreation, San Francisco, Sausalito, World War I, World War II
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 725249: Fort Baker , CRIS-CL: 725548: Fort Barry , CRIS-CL: 725549: Fort Cronkhite