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Crab Cove Visitor Center

Name: Crab Cove Visitor Center
Address: 1252 McKay Avenue, Alameda, CA, 94501, US

1252 McKay Avenue

Alameda, CA 94501

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510-544-3187

History:

Up until the late 1930s, the area now occupied by the visitor center was part of a thriving resort community featuring bathing spas and an amusement park. Later, during and just after World War II, it was the site of the U.S. Maritime Service Officers School, a training base for Merchant Marine commanders. What is now the visitor center building was the base infirmary.

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