Pine Point is a cape landform in
Richardson Bay
Richardson Bay (originally Richardson's Bay) is a shallow, ecologically rich arm of San Francisco Bay, managed under a Joint Powers Agency of four northern California cities. The Richardson Bay Sanctuary was acquired in the early 1960s by the ...
,
Marin County, California near the town of
Sausalito
Sausalito (Spanish for "small willow grove") is a city in Marin County, California, United States, located southeast of Marin City, south-southeast of San Rafael, and about north of San Francisco from the Golden Gate Bridge.
Sausalito's ...
. There was an early 1900 rail line in operation in the vicinity of Pine Point.
Pine Point was an area of early twentieth century residential land use, prior to the construction of
Liberty ship
Liberty ships were a class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding Program. Though British in concept, the design was adopted by the United States for its simple, low-cost construction. Ma ...
s in the local area.
"Sacrificed in this country’s great wartime mobilization following December 7, 1941, this small peninsula jutting out from the shoreline, once a snug residential enclave, provided the vital landfill required to create
Marinship
Marinship Corporation was a shipbuilding company of the United States during World War II, created to build the shipping required for the war effort. Founded in 1942, the shipyard built 93 cargo ships and oil tankers, before ending operations 1 ...
. And a small community of largely working class families had to be moved from the point before it was destroyed."
Prehistory
The local area was originally inhabited by
Native Americans, with the clearest demonstrable evidence of such early habitation on nearby
Ring Mountain situated slightly to the north.
[C. Michael Hogan. 2008]
See also
*
Marinship
Marinship Corporation was a shipbuilding company of the United States during World War II, created to build the shipping required for the war effort. Founded in 1942, the shipyard built 93 cargo ships and oil tankers, before ending operations 1 ...
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References
* C. Michael Hogan. 2008
Ring Mountain The Megalithic Portal, ed. Andy Burnham
* Marinship Corporation
Pine Point — SauSalito’S loSt Community
Landforms of Marin County, California
Sausalito, California
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