
American Merchant Marine Veterans Memorial
A NON FOR PROFIT, PRESERVING HISTORY OF THE MERCHANT MARINES
Well-known landmarks and rare finds
San Pedro and the Harbor Area have many historical locations: lighthouses, forts, memorials, museums and century-old homes.

A NON FOR PROFIT, PRESERVING HISTORY OF THE MERCHANT MARINES

The San Pedro-South Bay chapter runs and operates the only all-volunteer post office in the country. A non-profit for the benefit of local charities.

Banning House, also known as the General Phineas Banning Residence Museum, is a historic Greek Revival-Victorian home in the Wilmington section of LA.
Crafted in the period when cast iron became popular as an art form, in the 1870's, it served the public for approximately 80 years. Removed in 2025






A museum inside Battery Osgood-Farley, a 1916 coastal gun battery in Angels Gate Park, telling the story of how Los Angeles harbor was defended from World War I to the Cold War.



A 17-ton bell and stone pavilion on a hilltop in Angels Gate Park, given by South Korea for the U.S. Bicentennial in 1976, with sweeping views of the ocean and harbor.




An 1874 Victorian stick-style lighthouse on the bluffs of Point Fermin Park, with free guided tours of the keeper's quarters and tower Tuesday through Sunday afternoons.


