(The Presidio of San Francisco. Drawing by Louis Choris in November 1817. Wikipedia.)
On this day in 1776, Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
(Old Coast Guard Station and Golden Gate Bridge.)
Hello everyone and welcome to the daily Pink Clubhouse diary.
Today I have some photos of the Presidio of San Francisco. All photos are via the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interiror website.
The Presidio of San Francisco (originally, El Presidio Real de San Francisco or Royal Presidio of San Francisco)
is a park on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula in San Francisco, California, within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. It has been a fortified location since 1776 when the Spanish made it the military center of their expansion in the area. It passed to Mexico, which in turn passed it to the United States in 1847.[5] As part of a military reduction program, Congress voted in 1989 to end the Presidio's status as an active military installation and on October 1, 1994, it was transferred to the National Park Service, ending 219 years of military use and beginning its next phase of mixed commercial and public use.[6] In 1996, the United States Congress created the Presidio Trust to oversee and manage the interior 80% of the park's lands, with the National Park Service managing the coastal 20%.[7] In a first-of-its-kind structure, Congress mandated that the Presidio Trust make the Presidio financially self-sufficient by 2013, something it achieved 8 years early.[8]
The park is characterized by many wooded areas, hills, and scenic vistas overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. It was recognized as a National Historic Landmark in 1962.
(Kobbe Avenue Officer's Housing)
(Montgomery Street Barracks)
(Golden Gate from Battery East)
(Palace of Fine Arts)
(Coastal Bluffs)
(Ruby-crowned Kinglet on plum.)
(Blue-eyed grass at Inspiration Point.)
(Marbled Godwit.)
(Bee on SilverLupine.)
(Cool Globes.)
(Silver Hairstreak)
(Indigo Bunting.)
(Douglas Iris.)
(Fun at Crissy Field.)
(Tidy Tips.)
(Rocky shoreline life.)
(Crissy Marsh.)
(Seaside daisies.)
(White- Crowned Sparrow.)
(Ornamental Lillies.)
Quote of the Day
“There may not be a Heaven, but there is a San Francisco”
~ Ashleigh Brilliant