Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
San Anselmo, California
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
==== Sleepy Hollow ammunition storage ==== During World War II, the Army based a small ammunition storage dump, known as ASP #2, about {{convert|2|mi|km}} up Butterfield Road from Sir Francis Drake Blvd. The facility was located between the road and San Anselmo Creek and had 23 to 45 men stationed there.<ref>[http://www.sananselmohistory.org/sleepyhollowmemories.html Claude E. Cook oral history] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100707072007/http://www.sananselmohistory.org/sleepyhollowmemories.html|date=July 7, 2010}}</ref> There were two batteries composed of four-inch antiaircraft cannon manned by five soldiers on a 24-hour basis. One battery was on Stuyvesant Drive and the other on Oak Springs Hill.<ref>[http://www.shha.org/history.htm Sleepy Hollow Country Club Homeowner's Association] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080902001126/http://www.shha.org/history.htm|date=September 2, 2008}}</ref> During the war, the [[Sleepy Hollow, Marin County, California|Sleepy Hollow]] Country Club, located in the old Hotaling mansion, was still open and provided a pleasant break from "grueling" guard duty, according to those stationed at the ammo dump.<ref>[http://www.sananselmohistory.org/sleepyhollowmemories.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100707072007/http://www.sananselmohistory.org/sleepyhollowmemories.html|date=July 7, 2010}}</ref>
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
San Anselmo, California
(section)
Add topic