Cabrillo NM: Shadows of the Past (Chapter 5)

CABRILLO

Shadows of the Past

CHAPTER FIVE:
OVERVIEW OF HISTORICAL MILITARY ARCHITECTURE AT POINT LOMA (continued)

Figure 18: Point Loma Military Reservation showing American Army identified historic resources, including potential archeological deposits, with key to inventory surveys (Ronald May map). (click on image for an enlargement in a new window)

Key to U.S. Army Era Historic Resources Map

Map Number	NRad Number	Van Wormer Number	Cabrillo Number	Description


1	A-02	H-33	—	Naval Radio Station
2	E-15	—	—	Ground Attack Defenses
3	E-15	—	—	Ground Attack Defenses
4	—	H-01	—	Ground Attack Defenses
5	E-15	—	—	Ground Attack Defenses
6	D-02	—	—	Utility Structure
7	E-01	—	—	Ground Attack Defenses
8	D-01	H-02	—	Battery Gillespie
9	D-02	—	—	Utility Structure
10	D-03	H-04	—	Temporary (wooden) Base End Station for Battery Gillespie
11	B-01	H-05	—	Searchlight
12	B-02	—	—	Searchlight
13	E-03	—	—	Ground Attack Defenses
14	B-03	H-06	—	Searchlight and Powerhouse
15	E-16	—	—	Fire Control Structure
16	—	B-03	—	.30-caliber machine gun emplacement
17	E-04	—	—	Battery
18	B-07/E-17/E-18	H-08	—	Fire Commander's Station in WWI; Battery and Harbor Command Post in WWII
19	D-06	H-09	—	Combined Battery 1 Command and Base End Station
20	B-06	H-07	—	Battery Whistler
21	E-06	H-11	—	Battery Woodward
22	E-05	—	—	Battery Support
23	B-04/B-05	H-10	—	Base End Station and Battery Command Station
24	D-07	H-12	—	Battery Strong
25	D-08	—	—	Fire Control Structure
26	D-09	—	—	Fire Control Structure
27	E-19	—	—	Site Feature
28	H-07	—	—	Site Feature
29	E-08	—	—	Site Feature
30	E-08	—	—	Site Feature
31	E-07	—	—	Site Feature
32	E-07	—	—	Site Feature
33	E-20	—	—	Ground Attack Defenses
34	D-10	H-13	—	Harbor Defense Command Post
35	E-22	—	—	Ground Attack Defenses
36	D-04	—	—	Searchlight
37	D-05	—	—	Searchlight
38	H-09	—	—	Site Feature
39	—	H-17	—	Unidentified foundation, possible water tank location
40	E-23	H-24	—	Plotting Room, Battery Ashburn
41	H-24	H-14	—	Battery Ashburn
42	—	—	15	Searchlight Shelter
43	—	—	16	Generator Station
44	—	H-15	—	Searchlight
45	—	—	12	Fire Control Structure
46	—	—	13	Fire Control Structure
47	E-25	H-23	—	Signal Station
48	E-26	—	—	Ground Attack Defenses
49	E-11	—	—	Utility Structure
50	—	—	17	Magazine
51	H-12	—	—	Battery
52	H-13	—	—	Searchlight
53	—	—	14	Battery Point Loma
54	—	E-16	—	Point Loma Light House
55	H-14	—	—	Fire Control Structure
56	A01	H-18	—	Searchlight, Powerhouse, Radar
57	E-28	—	—	Battery
S8	B-11	H-19	—	Searchlight; Battery Cliff
59	B-09	H-22	—	Base End Station and Battery Commander's Stations
60	E-27	H-20	—	Battery Humphrey-Ground Attack Defenses
61	B-10/D-11	H-21	—	Fort Battery Commander's and Base End Station
62	—	—	04	Electrical Connection Box
63	—	—	05	Searchlight Plant
64	—	—	06	Generator Plant
6S	—	—	11	Battery Bluff
66	—	—	07	Searchlight Shelter
67	—	—	03	Fire Control Structure
68	—	—	02	Radio Transmission Station
69	—	—	10	Generator Plant
70	—	—	08	Fire Control Structure
71	—	—	09	Fire Control Structure
72	—	H-27E	—	Searchlight, Historic Dump
73	—	E-26	—	Radio Transmission Station
74	—	H-27D	—	Battery McGrath
75	—	H-25	—	Battery John White
76	—	H-27B	—	Batteries Gillespie & Wilkeson
77	—	H-27C	—	Battery Fetterman
78	—	H-27F	—	Mining Casemate
79	—	H-28B	—	AMTB Battery Fetterman and Fire Control Structure
80	—	H-29	—	Fort Rosecrans Historic District
81	H-21	—	—	Fire Control Structure
82	—	H-30	—	Plank Walkway
83	—	—	—	Fort Rosecrans Historic District non-contiguous structure
84	—	—	—	Horse Burial
85	—	—	—	Fort Rosecrans Historic District non-contiguous structure
86	—	—	—	Fort Rosecrans Historic District non-contiguous structure
87	—	H-32	—	La Playa-Quarantine Station-Navy Supply Center
88	—	H-31	—	Ground Attack Defenses, Barbed Wire
89	A-03	—	—	Target Repair Base

Figure 19: Insignia of 115th Company, Coast Artillery Corps, uniform collar insignia from 1902-1924. This Company manned Battery Wilkeson 10 inch Disappearing Rifles and were quartered at Building 139. This artifact was found with burned uniform supplies discarded upon the refuse of Ballast Point Whaling Company, site SDi-2,000. Photograph by John Wright, No. P:95-1515. Copyright by Fort Guijarros Museum Association.

Figure 20: 1890 Photograph of Fort San Diego, constructed between 1873-1974. The white buildings housed work crews who improved the roadway sloping upward and the unfinished artillery battery to the left of the photograph. Photograph taken by Lighthouse Service and is not accessioned. Image is property of Fort Guijarros Museum Foundation.

Figure 21: Ca. 1923 Aerial photograph of 1890 Ballast Point Lighthouse (on top of Keepers' House), with Assistant Keepers' House, Fog Bell, warehouses of Ballast Point Whaling Company (barn-like structure and removed warehouse foundations). The open space immediately beyond the existing structures was occupied by 1860-1870s whaler's oil-rendering tryworks, recorded as archeological site SDi-12,953. At the top of this early photograph are four dark barracks at the waters' edge, constructed in 1917 but demolished in 1924. Photograph is not accessioned but image is property of Fort Guijarros Museum Foundation.

Figure 22: Ca. 1950 Oblique Aerial photograph of Fort Rosecrans, looking westward. World War II structures include Quartermasters Wharf, barracks and industrial buildings in foreground. Unoccupied flat landfill was installed in 1940. Larger buildings in tree-lined areas are 1904-1908 Coast Artillery barracks and officers' housing. Other buildings are 1940 Post Hospital Annex, Nurses' Quarters, and Bachelor Officers' Quarters. In a canyon is the 1915 Battery White, a large bore mortar emplacement. A fresh-looking hillside cut profiles the top of a 1943 Artillery Ordinance Repair Building. Point Loma Lighthouse is barely visible in the upper left corner of the image. Photograph C-140-7-50 and property of Space and Naval Warfare Photographic Archives. Reproduced by Fort Guijarros Museum Foundation.

Figure 23: Ca. 1936-1941 Photograph of Naval Radio Station and Sound Research Laboratory (foreground) which received the first radio message of the Pearl Harbor bombing on December 7, 1941. Looking eastward, round tanks are of the 1917-1940 Naval Fuel Depot. Beyond, at shoreline is the Quarantine Station and to the right is the 1907-1917 Naval Coal Depot which covers the 1822-1880s. La Playa community, including the six British hide houses described by Dana in Two Years Before the Mast. Copyright and property of Fort Guijarros Museum Foundation.

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