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The Journal of San Diego History
Spring 1985, Volume 31, Number 2
Contents of this Issue

The Fort That Never Was On Ballast Point
by Ronald V. May

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Polygonal Casemated Fortification  
Page 123

Attribute of a Polygonal Casemated Fortification.


Point Loma and Ballast Point about 1890  
Page 123

Point Loma and Ballast Point about 1890.


Ballast Point around the turn-of-the-century  
Page 125

Ballast Point around the turn-of-the-century with the four-gun emplacement of Battery Wilkeson.


Proposed Barbette Battery, Ballast Point  
Page 126

Proposed Barbette Battery, Ballast Point


 
Page 129

Field of Fire of Battery for Ballast Point


 
Page 133

Earth-covered casemated galleries for infantry musketmen to cover gun emplacements.


 
Page 133

Cross-sections of the proposed Ballast Point Fort.


THE PHOTOGRAPHS are from the San Diego Historical Society's Title Insurance and Trust Collection. Drawings are courtesy of the U.S. National Archives.

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