Portal:National Register of Historic Places/Did you know/5


 * ...that the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park is the first national tribute to home front American women?
 * ...that although a response to the 1885 Endicott Board recommendations for the coastal defense of San Francisco, the batteries at Fort Miley were not completed until 1902?
 * ...that Battery Chamberlin contains one of the last disappearing guns on the West Coast of the United States?
 * ...that in five years of operation during World War II, more than 747 vessels were built in the Richmond Shipyards in Richmond, California&mdash;a feat not equaled anywhere else in the world, before or since?
 * ...that Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona was set at Rancho Camulos in Piru, California?