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During World War II, the US Government established the United States Merchant Marine Cadet Basic School on ten acres that had once been an island, owned by the Howard and Mellus Mercantile Company of San Francisco since 1850. William Davis Merry Howard (1818-1856) bought out partner Henry Mellus's (1816-1860) stake in the business, and filled in the marshland surrounding the ten-acre island to create land for his dairy cows to graze and to create a wharf for the delivery of lumber to ships. During the war, the Merchant Marine used this land as a campus for its Cadet Basic School. It lasted here only four years, and at the war's end, the land was sold to the College of San Mateo for use as its first campus.

PCAD id: 20245