The Brothers (San Francisco Bay)

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For other Brother(s) Island(s), see Brother Island.
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Aerial photo of The Brothers
The Brothers is located in San Francisco Bay Area
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The Brothers is located in California
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The Brothers is located in the United States
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Geography
Coordinates37°57′48″N 122°25′59″W / 37.96333°N 122.43306°W / 37.96333; -122.43306[1]
Administration
StateCalifornia
CountyContra Costa County, California
West Brother Island and East Brother Light Station

The Brothers are a pair of small islands, East Brother and West Brother, located in the San Rafael Bay embayment of San Pablo Bay, these roughly 1,000 feet (300 m) west of Point San Pablo in Contra Costa County, California.

History[edit]

USGS Topographic Map of San Rafael Bay area.

The 19th century Mexican Diseño del Rancho de San Pablo, (diseño: a plat map typically used to indicate rancho land grant boundaries in Alta California), names East Brother Island as Isla de Pajaros or "Bird Island." They are shown, labeled "The Brothers", on an 1850 survey map of the San Francisco Bay area made by Cadwalader Ringgold.[2]


The Brothers, along with The Sisters (two exposed rocks two miles (3.2 kilometres) north of the Marin Islands, just off Point San Pedro) on the opposite side of San Pablo Strait, were originally reserved for military purposes by order of President Andrew Johnson in 1867. After many a court battle, the plans were scrapped.[3]

East Brother Island is home to the East Brother Island Light, a light house and a Victorian house, that is a present-day bed and breakfast.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "The Brothers". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ^ Ringgold, Cadwalader; Stuart, Fred D.; Everett, Chas.; Harrison (1850). "General Chart embracing Surveys of the Farallones Entrance to the Bay of San Francisco, Bays of San Francisco and San Pablo, Straits of Carquines and Suisun Bay, and the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, to the Cities of Sacramento and San Joaquin, California". David Rumsey Map Collection. San Francisco Common Council. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  3. ^ "East Brother Lighthouse". Retrieved 8 July 2012.

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