Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park
Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park is a United States national historical park located in Richmond, California, near San Francisco.Photo: E. F. Joseph, Public domain.
- Type: Park
- Description: U.S. national park in California
- Also known as: “RORI”, “Rosie the Riveter park”, “Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park”, and “Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park”
Places of Interest
Highlights include SS Red Oak Victory and Brooks Island.
SS Red Oak Victory
Photo: Leonard G., CC0.
SS Red Oak Victory is a U.S. Victory ship of the Boulder Victory-class cargo ship used in the Second World War. She was preserved to serve as a museum ship in Richmond, California, and is managed by the Richmond Library of History and located near the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park.
Brooks Island
Island
Photo: Rupert Clayton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Brooks Island Regional Preserve includes both the 75-acre of Brooks Island above the low-tide line and 300 acres of the surrounding bay. The only public access to the island is via an East Bay Regional Park District naturalist tour.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Marina Bay and Point Richmond.
Marina Bay
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Marina Bay, is located in Richmond's protected Richmond Inner Harbor. It was developed in the mid-1980s in an effort to clean up what had been up to that point the defunct World War II-era Kaiser Shipyards.
Point Richmond
Neighborhood
Point Richmond, also sometimes referred to locally as The Point, is a neighborhood in Richmond, California, United States, near the eastern end of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, between Interstate 580 and the San Francisco Bay. Point Richmond is situated 1½ miles northwest of Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park.
Atchison Village
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Atchison Village is a community in Richmond, California which was originally built as housing for defense workers from the Kaiser Shipyards. It lies at an elevation of 13 feet. Atchison Village is situated 2 miles north of Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park.
Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park
- Category: National Historical Park
- Location: Contra Costa, California, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Spanish—“Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park”
- Chinese: “鉚釘女工/第二次世界大戰家庭前線國家歷史公園”
- Chinese: “鉚釘女工第二次世界大戰家庭前線國家歷史公園”
- Dutch: “Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park”
- French: “Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park”
- Japanese: “ロージー・ザ・リベッター第二次世界大戦ホーム・フロント国立歴史公園”
- Spanish: “Parque histórico nacional de Rosie the Riveter y el Frente internal de la Segunda Guerra Mundial”
- Spanish: “Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Easter Hill Village and Richmond.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Point Potrero and Harbor Channel.
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