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Alcatraz restoration project reveals history

The National Park Service pulls the tarps off a $3 million restoration project at Alcatraz Island, improving seismic safety and revealing new aspects of its history as a Civil War-era military fort, prison and federal penitentiary.

The National Park Service pulls the tarps off a $3 million restoration project at Alcatraz Island, improving seismic safety and revealing new aspects of its history as a Civil War-era military fort, prison and federal penitentiary.