The first time that the island was first discovered was August 5th, 1775 by a Spanish explorer by the name of Juan Manuel de Ayala who actually mapped and named the Alcatraz Island for christening it La Isla de los Alcatraces or island of the Pelicans because of all the large population of birds. (America) . However Juan Manuel de Ayala wasn’t the first person to visit the island he was only the one to discover it. The first people to actually visit the island Alcatraz were the Miwok native Americans and the Ohlone Native Americans.
They visited the island around 10,000 and 20,000 years ago. The Miwok lived north of the bay in which is known today as Marin County and the Ohlone lived in the coastal areas between Point Sur and the San Francisco Bay. (Cruises) The island of Alcatraz didn’t become a military base until California became a possession of the United States in February. California was officially part of the United States on February 2th 1848 after a treaty with Mexico that ended the Mexican War. Cruises) On January 24th gold was first discovered in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and with that the population of San Francisco exploded from 500 to more than 35,000 as gold seekers came to California. Now some may ask why is this so important well it was from all the gold hunters coming to California that is when the government began to realize that the state of California was very vulnerable because of the San Francisco Bay so they decided that it needed to be protected at all costs.
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They decided to build a fort to protect San Francisco Bay from intrusion. The fort was finished in December 1859 with over a hundred cannons on the island. The military also built the first working lighthouse on the island the lighthouse was finished on June 1st 1854. (Cruises) It wasn’t until 1860 that the U. S army began sending soldier convicts to the Alcatraz fort and for over 40 years the island gradually became obsolete as a fortification and more important as a prison. The U.
S army removed the forts guns and in 1907 and Alcatraz was formally designated as a Military Prison. (Cruises) The prisoners on the island actually built the buildings that are on the island of Alcatraz the last of the military prisoners left the island in 1933. Alcatraz didn’t become a federal penitentiary till 1934 till 1963 while it was open as a prison it housed some of Americans most dangerous criminals and also was home to the worse prison escape attempt where it lasted 2 days.
