Collapsed Panama Mount on beach as seen in photograph no. 2. Exposed underside to extant Panama Mount and ammunition depot are seen at top of cliff left of center. Looking 342° NNW. - Fort Funston, Panama Mounts for 155mm Guns, Skyline Boulevard and Great Highway, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA
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Significance: The Panama mounts of Battery Bluff are significant as they are a contributing feature to the Fort Funston Historic District which is considered eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. The Panama mounts were the only guns of its type to be emplaced in the San Francisco Harbor Defenses.
Survey number: HAER CA-193-A
Building/structure dates: 1937 Initial Construction