[California]: Gifford, Charles B.:

$7,500 · Offered by William Reese Company

U.S. NAVY YARD MARE ISLAND, AND CITY OF VALLEJO. SOLANO CO. CAL. A rare and attractive view of the naval base at Mare Island in San Francisco Bay, the first United States naval base on the Pacific Coast, and also showing the nearby town of Vallejo.The town of Vallejo, in the northeast part of the San Francisco Bay Area and on the east coast of San Pablo Bay, was planned in 1850 by the noted political and military leader, Mariano Vallejo, who hoped to attract the state capitol to that location. Located just across the Napa River from Vallejo, the long peninsula of Mare Island is well-situated strategically not only at the north end of the greater Bay Area, but also to guard the entrance to Carquinez Strait and the large network of inland waterways that constitute the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, which was an important transportation route to the Central Valley of California, the mining camps, and beyond. Mare Island was recommended as a naval base in 1852, and in 1854 it was established as the first official United States Navy Base on the Pacific Coast. This attractive bird's-eye view looks southward from north of Vallejo, and shows the growing town on the left side of the image. The community consists of a number of tightly-grouped buildings near the shore of the Napa River, predominantly consisting of one- and two-story buildings, with one building as tall as four stories. Unimproved land, some of it used for farms, bounds the town. The naval base on the long Mare Island pe

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