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USS Crescent City

1940 shipsCrescent City-class attack transportsIMO numbersShips built in Sparrows Point, MarylandType C3-P&C ships
World War II amphibious warfare vessels of the United StatesWorld War II auxiliary ships of the United States
USS Crescent City APA 21
USS Crescent City APA 21

USS Crescent City (AP-40/APA-21) was the lead ship of the Crescent City-class attack transports that served with the US Navy during World War II. The ship was built as the cargo and passenger liner Delorleans for the Mississippi Shipping Company's Delta Line. After brief commercial operation the ship was among 28 vessels requisitioned in June 1941 for the Navy and the Army. The Navy renamed the ship Crescent City, a popular nickname for New Orleans, Louisiana, upon commissioning 10 October 1941. The ship was decommissioned and laid up in 1948 before being loaned to the California Maritime Academy to serve as a training ship 1971–1995 and then transferred to a foundation in a failed art colony project. The ship left California for Texas scrapping in 2012.

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USS Crescent City
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94592 Vallejo
California, United States
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California State Capitol (Vallejo, California)
California State Capitol (Vallejo, California)

Vallejo California State Capitol was founded on May 4, 1852, at a building in Vallejo, California in Solano County, California. The Vallejo California State Capitol site is a California Historical Landmark No. 574 listed on April 1, 1957.A Vallejo wooden two-story building served as the California State Capitol from May 4, 1852, to February 4, 1853. The building had a half set basement and was located at 300 York Street, Vallejo. General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1807-1890) offered the site to the State after the wooden Sacramento California State Capitol building in the Sacramento First Courthouse burnt to the ground in large fire on July 13, 1854.After the Vallejo California State Capitol, the State Capitol moved to the Fischer-Hanlon House, in Benicia, California, from February 3, 1853, to February 24, 1854. The Benicia site is California Historical Landmark #153. Then the California State Capitol moved back to Sacramento, California Historical Landmark #869.The former Vallejo California State Capitol Building was lost on August 20, 1859, as hay stored in the basement caught fire. Site is now a parking lot. Site is California Historical Landmark #574.A historical marker is at the site of the former Vallejo California State Capitol on the Northwest corner of a city parking lot at 200 block of York Street, next to the Vallejo Transit Center. The marker was placed there by Native Sons of the Golden West, Historic Landmark Committee in 1938. There is second smaller marker also.