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    Historical Cities-San Francisco, California
    Historical Cities-San Francisco, California
    Historical Cities-San Francisco, California
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    Historical Cities-San Francisco, California

    By Lyn Wilkerson

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    This edition in the Historical Cities series explores landmarks and sites within the city of San Francisco. Over 50 sites are divided into the east and west side of the northern end of the Peninsula. Maps and GPS coordinates are included.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLyn Wilkerson
    Release dateApr 23, 2010
    ISBN9781452486413
    Historical Cities-San Francisco, California
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    Lyn Wilkerson

    Caddo Publications USA was created in 2000 to encourage the exploration of America’s history by the typical automotive traveler. The intent of Caddo Publications USA is to provide support to both national and local historical organizations as historical guides are developed in various digital and traditional print formats. Using the American Guide series of the 1930’s and 40’s as our inspiration, we began to develop historical travel guides for the U.S. in the 1990’s.

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      Historical Cities-San Francisco, California - Lyn Wilkerson

      While every effort has been made to insure accuracy, neither the author nor the publisher assume legal responsibility for any consequences arising from the use of this book or the information it contains.

      All maps are by the author.

      Historical Cities-San Francisco, California

      Smashwords Edition

      Lyn Wilkerson

      ISBN 978-1-4524-8641-3

      All Rights Reserved. Copyright © 2010 Lyn Wilkerson

      No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Introduction

      This guide, along with the various others produced by Lyn Wilkerson and Caddo Publications USA, are based on the American Guide Series. Until the mid-1950’s, the U.S. Highway System provided the means for various modes of transport to explore this diverse land. To encourage such explorations, the Works Projects Administration under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Federal Writers Project created the American Guide Series. This series of books were commissioned by the Federal Government to capture the culture and history of the United States and provide the direction necessary for travelers to explore it. Each state created a commission of writers who canvassed their respective territories for content to submit. The preliminary works were then sent to Washington D.C. for final assembly in to a standard format. The result was a travel guide for each state. The series spread to include guides for important cities as well. After the State Guides were complete, the concept of a national guide was developed. However, it would not be until 1949, with the backing of Hastings House Publishing, that a true national guide would be created. Through several rounds of condensing, the final product maintained much of the most essential points of interest and the most colorful material.

      To quote from the California edition of the American Guide Series, romance has been kept in its place. . . The intent of this guide is to provide information about the historic sites, towns, and landmarks along the chosen routes, and to provide background information and stories for what lies in-between. It is not our desire to dramatize the history or expand on it in any way. We believe that the character and culture of San Francisco, and our country as a whole, can speak for itself. The guide has been created, not for just travelers new to the city, but for current residents who may not realize what lies just around the corner in their own neighborhood. The goal of Caddo Publications USA is to encourage the exploration of the rich history that many of us drive by on a regular basis without any sense it existed, and to entertain and educate so that history will not be lost in the future.

      Table of Contents:

      History of San Francisco

      East Side

      West Side

      San Francisco Bay

      Oakland

      East Bay (South of Oakland)

      San Jose

      West Bay (South of San Francisco)

      North Bay (North of Oakland)

      History of San Francisco

      The first humans known to have visited the site of San Francisco were Tamal Indians from present Marin County, north of the Golden Gate, who braved the treacherous bay tides in frail canoes to obtain salt in the marshes here. For years, the Spanish sought to find a good harbor in this region to serve as a stop on the long voyage from Mexico to the Philippines, but three expeditions between 1542 and 1602 failed to locate it. A century and a half passed before the great harbor here was discovered, quite by accident, and not by sea but by land. In 1769, an expedition was led northward from San Diego by Don Gaspar de Portola. A reconnoitering party was detached under the command of Sergeant Jose Ortega, who with his handful of men reached the shores of San Francisco Bay in November of 1769.

      Settlement began seven years later when Don Juan Bautista de Anza, with his 30 soldiers and their families, marched some 200 colonists overland to the tip of the peninsula. They began erecting shelters in 1776. A presidio and a mission were immediately laid out. The latter was established by Father Juipero Serra and named San Francisco de Asis, later known as Mission Dolores. For seventy years, the new colony of Yerba Buena was no more than an isolated outpost, occupied largely by the military. Its few civilians and priests carried on sporadic trade in tallow and hides, sea otter and seal pelts. For the most part, they lived in tents and adobe huts. The first house, it appears, was erected in 1835 by an Englishman, Captain William A. Richardson, for whom Richardson’s Bay is named. Jacob Primer Leese, an American, opened the first store in the following year. Jean Vioget, a Swiss, made the first attempt to lay out streets in the straggling settlement, which had been named Yerba Buena (good herb) for a grass that grew thickly on the sand dunes.

      By 1840, the Spanish-Americans of Yerba Buena were threatened with foreign invasion by Anglo-Americans from the East. In July of 1846, within three months of the outbreak of the Mexican War, Captain John B. Montgomery landed marines from the Portsmouth on the plaza, hoisted the Stars and Stripes, and took possession of the town in the name of the United States. Soon, the plaza was Portsmouth Square, the street passing along it was rechristened in honor of Captain Montgomery, and Yerba Buena became San Francisco.

      Some twenty nationalities and races were represented in the population of the settlement, when, in 1846,

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