A pending $1.1 million federal funding plan would enable the Mare Island Museum to upgrade the old commandant’s mansion on the former Navy shipyard – providing an interim home now that its former, ...
A huge museum of other Mare Island and naval artifacts ranging from ship bells to historic photographs will open by mid-2002, Zadwick said. The USS Drum, launched in 1970 and retired 23 years later to ...
The post-statehood history of Mare Island Naval Shipyard, dating from 1854 to 1996, is fairly straightforward and well-documented. But how the island just north of San Francisco got its name while in ...
The Sharpsteen Museum Association is taking a trip to Mare Island, a former Naval base, on Feb. 17. The group will tour the inside of the former top-secret Navy shipyard, including the cemetery where ...
Editor’s note: The following is an extra Solano Chronicles. The column regularly appears in every other Sunday’s print edition of the Times-Herald. Mare Island’s St. Peter’s Chapel is best known as ...