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42-437: Suisun may refer to: People [ edit ] Suisun people Places [ edit ] Suisun Bay Suisun City, California Suisun–Fairfield station Suisun Marsh Suisun Valley AVA , wine region Ships [ edit ] USS Suisun Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

84-510: A chain of Indian battles and growing distrust. The next year in 1811, perhaps due to the loss of 125 men, a large group of Suisunes gave up the resistance and moved into Mission San Francisco de Asís in present-day San Francisco. A total of 326 Suisunes were baptized at this mission between 1810 and 1816. In 1817, Jose DeArguello , the commandant of the Presidio of San Francisco sent his lieutenant Jose Sanchez to lead another attack against

126-663: A child in Moraga's raid of 1810 or his family brought him within two months of the battle. In 1823, Sem-Yeto and the Suisun people at Mission San Francisco moved into the new mission in the town of Sonoma, California , the Mission San Francisco de Solano , to help build and populate this final Franciscan mission built north of the San Francisco Bay. In 1834, General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo of Sonoma, as

168-677: A former airfield, has undergone extensive restoration and is now a popular recreational area. It borders on the San Francisco Marina in the east and on the Golden Gate Bridge in the west. The park has a large inventory of approximately 800 buildings, many of them historical. By 2004, about 50% of the buildings on park grounds had been restored and partially remodeled. The Presidio Trust has contracted commercial real estate management companies to help attract and retain residential and commercial tenants. The total capacity

210-422: A habitat for flora and fauna, previously not in the site's evidence. It also restored a historic grass airfield that became a culturally significant military airfield between 1919 and 1936. The park at Crissy Field expanded and widened the recreational opportunities of the existing 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 -mile (2.4 km) San Francisco shore to a broader number of Presidio residents and visitors. A major component of

252-674: A high-tech Presidio museum and a 7-acre (2.8 ha) "Great Lawn" that is now open to the public. In 2007, Donald Fisher , founder of the Gap clothing stores and former board member of the Presidio Trust, announced a plan to build a 100,000-square-foot (9,300 m ) museum tentatively named the Contemporary Art Museum of the Presidio, to house his art collection. Due to opposition, Fisher withdrew his plans to build

294-711: A significant agreement with Lucasfilm to build a new facility called the Letterman Digital Arts Center (LDAC), which is now Lucasfilm's corporate headquarters. The site replaced portions of what was the Letterman Hospital. George Lucas won the development rights for 15 acres (6.1 ha) of the Presidio, in June 1999, after beating out several rival plans, including a leading proposal by the Shorenstein Company. LDAC replaced

336-586: A smallpox epidemic decimated the native population of the Sonoma region, as well as from other diseases brought in from the Spaniards as well as the Russians at Fort Ross . Chief Solano was one of the few natives to receive a vaccination. Chief Solano was also one of a handful of natives to receive a land grant in the mission secularization and parcelling out of Mexican-American lands. The Suisunes who survived

378-770: Is a park and former U.S. Army post on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula in San Francisco , California , and is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area . It had been a fortified location since September 17, 1776, when New Spain established the presidio to gain a foothold in Alta California and the San Francisco Bay . It passed to Mexico in 1820, which in turn passed to

420-513: Is estimated at 5,000 residents when all buildings have been rehabilitated. Among the Presidio's residents is The Bay School of San Francisco, a private, coeducational college preparatory school located in the central Main Post area. Others include The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation , Tides Foundation , the Arion Press , Sports Basement Presidio, and The Walt Disney Family Museum , a museum in

462-471: Is estimated that there may be at least four coyote families living in the park. The visitor centers are operated by the National Park Service : Crissy Field Center (former Air Service / Air Corps / Army Air Forces airfield) is an urban environmental education center with programs for schools, public workshops, after-school programs, summer camps, and more. The center is operated by

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504-726: Is the San Francisco National Cemetery . Among the military personnel interred there are General Frederick Funston , hero of the Spanish–American War, Philippine–American War , and commanding officer of the Presidio at the time of the 1906 earthquake ; and General Irvin McDowell , a Union Army commander who lost the First Battle of Bull Run . The Marine Hospital operated a cemetery for merchant seamen approximately 100–250 yards (91–229 m) from

546-476: The Golden Gate Bridge , San Francisco Bay, and the Pacific Ocean . It was recognized as a California Historical Landmark in 1933 and as a National Historic Landmark in 1962. The Presidio was originally a Spanish fort sited by Juan Bautista de Anza on March 28, 1776, built by a party led by José Joaquín Moraga later that year. The limestone used to build the presidio was mined by Ohlones at

588-511: The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and overlooks a restored tidal marsh . The facilities include interactive environmental exhibits, a media lab, a resource library, an art workshop, a science lab, a gathering room, a teaching kitchen, a café, and a bookstore. The landscape of Crissy Field was designed by George Hargreaves . The project restored a naturally functioning and sustaining tidal wetland as

630-685: The Patwin Indians, who were the southern branch of the Wintun group, who had lived in the region for up to 4000 years. Few records have been handed down; approximately 2500-5000 Patwins existed in all. By 1800, Spain had taken control of most of the Bay Area, having erected seven missions in the Ohlone region south and west of the Suisunes' region. The closest mission to the Suisunes was across

672-719: The Pomo Indians of Cainama in the region toward Santa Rosa)", who were attempting to throw off Mexican domination. Chief Solano eventually helped to secure peace between the region's Native Americans and the Mexicans. A peace treaty was signed in 1836. With the alliance with General Vallejo, the tribe was relatively powerful. On a political venture, Vallejo even arranged for and sent Chief Solano and 100 warrior Suisunes to travel down to Monterey, California to impress and seek military support from Juan Bautista Alvarado , governor of Alta California (1836–1837, 1838–1842). In 1837,

714-587: The Rockaway Quarry . In 1783, the Presidio's garrison numbered only 33 men. Upon Mexican independence from Spain in 1821, it was briefly operated as a Mexican fortification. The Presidio was seized by the U.S. military at the start of the Mexican–American War in 1846. It was officially reopened by the Americans in 1848 and became home to several army headquarters and units, the last being

756-536: The San Francisco Bay , Mission San Francisco de Asís . Franciscan missionaries wanted to bring all tribes into the Spanish-controlled missions , pueblos and presidios , however the Spanish had not yet reached north of the present-day Carquinez Strait to the Suisunes. The Suisunes lived sufficiently far away from the first missions to rebel from the incoming Spaniards, and over time they joined with

798-696: The United States 6th Army . Several famous U.S. generals, such as William Tecumseh Sherman , George Henry Thomas , and John J. Pershing , made their homes here. During its long history, the Presidio was involved in most of America's military engagements in the Pacific Rim . Importantly, it was the assembly point for army forces that invaded the Philippines during the Spanish–American War , America's first significant military engagement in

840-598: The United States Congress created the Presidio Trust to oversee and manage the interior 80% of the park's lands, with the National Park Service managing the coastal 20%. In a first-of-its-kind structure, Congress mandated that the Presidio Trust make the Presidio financially self-sufficient by 2013. The Presidio achieved the goal in 2005, eight years ahead of the deadline. The park has many wooded areas, hills, and scenic vistas overlooking

882-652: The Presidio's park attractions is the Presidio Tunnel Tops, which has created a 14-acre park (5.7 ha) on top of the tunneled portions of Doyle Drive. The park contains several meadows and walking trails, along with viewpoints for major landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge. Negotiations between Caltrans , the San Francisco County Transportation Authority , and the Presidio Trust to finalize

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924-421: The Suisun tribe, believed to have taken place in the hills behind Benicia . The Spaniards subsequently gained ground in present-day Fairfield and Suisun City today, reaching the Suisun village of Chief Malica , sachem of the tribe. At this village, probably with imminent defeat of his people, Chief Malica and the majority of the tribe chose to end their lives in a tragic mass suicide. The Spaniards witnessed

966-546: The United States in 1848. As part of a military reduction program under the Base Realignment and Closure ( BRAC ) process from 1988, Congress voted to end the Presidio's status as an active military installation of the U.S. Army . On October 1, 1994, it was transferred to the National Park Service , ending 219 years of military use and beginning its next phase of mixed commercial and public use. In 1996,

1008-573: The comandante of the new pueblo projects in the region, became a very valuable patron and friend to Chief Solano, and formed an alliance with the Suisunes. The mission system was closing down. Chief Solano and the Suisunes led many expeditions with the object of quelling the other tribes of the region, particularly "the Wappo , the Satisyomis (aka Sotoyomes, a Wappo tribe) and the Cainameros (aka

1050-572: The epidemic began to earn their livelihoods through farm labor or fishing. Some chose to work as seasonal or year-round ranch labors for Vallejo at the Rancho Petaluma Adobe or other area ranches. In 1846, at the end of the Bear Flag Revolt when California was ceded to the United States, General Vallejo was taken prisoner by Americans at Sutter's Fort , Sem-Yeto fled north, and the people continued to earn their living on

1092-535: The first of a series of sculptures in the Presidio, the Spire . It is 100 feet (30 m) tall and located near the Arguello Gate. It represents the tree replanting effort that has been underway at the Presidio. Spire was followed by Wood Line in 2011, Tree Fall in 2013, and Earth Wall in 2014. In 2010, a trampoline park called House of Air was built using an old aircraft hangar. As of 2023, it

1134-463: The former Lucasfilm headquarters in San Rafael . The $ 300 million development includes nearly 900,000 square feet (84,000 m ) of office space and a 150,000-square-foot (14,000 m ) underground parking garage with a capacity of 2,500 employees. Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Magic , Lucas Licensing, and Lucas Online divisions reside at the site. George Lucas's proposal included plans for

1176-601: The hospital property. Based on city municipal records, historians estimate that the cemetery was used from 1885 to 1912. As part of the "Trails Forever" initiative, the Parks Conservancy, the National Park Service, and the Presidio Trust partnered to build a walking trail along the south side of the site featuring interpretive signage about its history. The Presidio was the home of the Western Defense Command headquarters during World War II . It

1218-687: The memory of Walt Disney. Many various commercial enterprises also lease buildings on the Presidio. The Thoreau Center for Sustainability preserved sections of the Letterman Army Hospital . The Presidio of San Francisco is the only site in a national recreation area with an extensive residential leasing program. The Presidio has four creeks that park stewards and volunteers are restoring to expand their riparian habitats' former extents. The creeks are Lobos and Dragonfly creeks, El Polin Spring , and Coyote Gulch . The Trust entered

1260-632: The museum in the Presidio and instead donated the art to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art before he died in 2009. As the Doyle Drive viaduct was deemed seismically unsafe and obsolete, construction started on the demolition of Doyle Drive in 2008 to replace the structure with a flat, broad-lane highway with a tunnel through the bluffs above Crissy Field , called the Presidio Parkway . The project cost $ 1 billion and

1302-519: The need to maximize income by leasing historic buildings and permitting public use despite most structures being rented privately. Further differences have arisen from the divergent needs to preserve the integrity of the National Historic Landmark District in the face of new construction, competing pressures for natural habitat restoration, and requirements for commercial purposes that impede public access. Crissy Field,

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1344-539: The next in line to be the chief of the next generation of Suisunes. Sem-Yeto was described as tall, 6 feet 7 inches, handsome and brave. Sem-Yeto was baptized in the San Francisco Mission in July 1810 at roughly age 10 with the name "Francisco Solano" and lived there until adulthood. He became known as Chief Solano . His baptism took place 2 months after the tragedy of 1810. Sem-Yeto was possibly captured as

1386-493: The other Patwin tribes in the central valley region to resist the incursion on their lands and maintain their freedom. They acquired horses from mission runaways and mission outposts. The Suisunes might have avoided contact for several more decades with the missionaries, however in the early 19th century, Indian runaways from the missions began to seek shelter with the Suisunes. The missions would send Mission Indians to round up "Christian" runaways. The interaction set in motion

1428-537: The park in partnership with the National Park Service. The trust has jurisdiction over the interior of 80 percent of the Presidio, including nearly all its historic structures. The National Park Service manages coastal areas. Primary law enforcement throughout the Presidio is the jurisdiction of the United States Park Police . One of the main objectives of the Presidio Trust's program was achieving financial self-sufficiency by fiscal year 2013, which

1470-400: The ranches of California. Solano County is named after Chief (Sem-Yeto) Francisco Solano. Suisun Marsh and Suisun Bay are named after the Suisun tribe. Suisun City is named after the Suisun tribe as well as the marsh. Presidio of San Francisco The Presidio of San Francisco (originally, El Presidio Real de San Francisco or The Royal Fortress of Saint Francis )

1512-599: The region. Beginning in the 1890s, the Presidio was home to the Letterman Army Medical Center (LAMC), named in 1911 for Jonathan Letterman , the medical director of the Civil War –era Army of the Potomac . LAMC provided thousands of war-wounded with high-quality medical care during every US foreign conflict of the 20th century. One of the last two remaining cemeteries within the city's limits

1554-514: The title Suisun . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Suisun&oldid=1258609853 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Suisun people The Suisunes were one tribe of

1596-482: The village's brushy huts burst into flames. The chief chanting and singing, leapt into the flames, followed by the people of the village, including the women with children and babies. The Spaniards tried to save some while several Indians fled into the hills. The remaining tribe survived in the hills or through assimilation, reemerging under the leadership of Chief Sem-Yeto , also known as Chief Solano . Sem-Yeto (later known as Chief Solano) , born about 1800, emerged as

1638-524: Was here that Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt signed 108 Civilian Exclusion Orders and directives for the internment of Japanese Americans under the authority of Executive Order 9066 signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. The Presidio sent its few remaining units to war for the last time in 1991 for Desert Storm , the First Gulf War. The role of the Sixth Army

1680-461: Was reached in 2006. Immediately after its inception, the trust began preparing rehabilitation plans for the park. Many areas had to be decontaminated before being prepared for public use. The Presidio Trust Act calls for the "preservation of the cultural and historic integrity of the Presidio for public use." The Act also requires that the Presidio Trust be financially self-sufficient by 2013. These imperatives have resulted in numerous conflicts between

1722-525: Was scheduled to be completed by 2016. The Trust plans to create a promenade that will link the Lombard Gate and the new Lucasfilm campus to the Main Post and, ultimately, to the Golden Gate Bridge. The promenade is part of a trail expansion plan that will add 24 miles (39 km) of new pathways and eight scenic overlooks throughout the park. In October 2008, artist Andy Goldsworthy constructed

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1764-461: Was the management of training and coordinating deployment of Army National Guard and U.S. Army Reserve units in the Western U.S. for Operation Desert Storm. After a hard-fought battle, the Presidio averted being sold at auction and came under the management of the Presidio Trust, a U.S. government corporation established by an act of Congress in 1996. The Presidio Trust now manages most of

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