Southwest view from Fort Winfield Scott, San Francisco
View includes Baker Beach and Lands End.
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A circle of threaded steel studs remains where a coastal artillery gun was once mounted at Battery Godfrey.
Fort Winfield Scott
San Francisco, California
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Remains of late 19th Century coastal defense emplacements, Fort Winfield Scott.
San Francisco, California
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Battery Godfrey (1895), one of several late-19th Century coastal defense artillery installations at Fort Winfield Scott.
San Francisco, California
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Lands End, viewed to the southwest of Battery Marcus Miller at Fort Winfield Scott.
The thick, slightly-inclined concrete structure would deflect incoming shells and protect the ammunition magazine below.
San Francisco, California
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