Fort McDowell North

Fort McDowell on Angel Island began as a quarantine post for soldiers returning from the Philippines during the Spanish-American War and later served as a discharge and recruit depot. By 1900, it had become the center of military activity on the island, then known entirely as Fort McDowell, with this site as East Garrison and Camp Reynolds as West Garrison. The post reached its greatest activity during World War II, when thousands of troops, including men on special assignments and replacement troops for units already fighting in the Pacific, passed through on their way to war. In December 1945, 9,555 troops were discharged there so they could return home in time for Christmas. After the war, the fort was no longer needed, and in 1946 the base closed and the island was declared surplus. During the Nike missile era, the army reopened the hospital as a barracks and administration building.

Tiburon, California · United States