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Alcatraz Island : Rich History With Marvellous Scenic Beauty
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Alcatraz Island, also referred simply as the Rock or Alcatraz, is a small island situated in the middle of the San Francisco Bay (California, United States). This famous island once served as a light house, but later it went on to serve a variety of purposes including a military fortification and then a military prison. Alcatraz Island was also made a federal prison till 1963. In 1972, this island was made an area for national recreation and then received the land marking designation between the period of 1976 and 1986.
The Alcatraz Island was used to keep Civil War prisoners in 1861 because it was isolated from the outside world by strong and cold hazardous currents of the deadly waters in the San Francisco Bay. In 1906, civil prisoners were shifted to this island after San Francisco was jolted with an earthquake for safe confinement.
