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The original plaza of the Spanish settlement remains as Portsmouth Square. Today's city took its name from the mission, and Yerba Buena became the name of a San Francisco neighborhood now known as South of Market. The Moscone Center and Yerba Buena Gardens are in the Yerba Buena area.
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San Francisco, city and port, coextensive with San Francisco county, northern California, U.S., located on a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay. It is a cultural and financial centre of the western United States and one of the country’s most cosmopolitan cities. Area 46 square miles (120 square km). Pop. (2010) 805,235; San F...
San Francisco holds a secure place in the United States’ romantic dream of itself—a cool, elegant, handsome, worldly seaport whose steep streets offer breathtaking views of one of the world’s greatest bays. According to the dream, San Franciscans are sophisticates whose lives hold full measures of such civilized pleasures as music, art, and good food. Their children are to be pitied, for, as the wife of publishing magnate Nelson Doubleday once said, “They will probably grow up thinking all cities are so wonderful.” To San Franciscans their city is a magical place, almost an island, saved by its location and history from the sprawl and monotony that afflicts so much of urban California.
Since World War II, however, San Francisco has had to face the stark realities of urban life: congestion, air and water pollution, violence and vandalism, and the general decay of the inner city. San Francisco’s makeup has been changing as families, mainly white and middle-class, have moved to its suburbs, leaving the city to a population that, viewed statistically, tends to be older and to have fewer married people. Now more than one of every two San Franciscans is “nonwhite”—in this case African American, East Asian, Filipino, Samoan, Vietnamese, Latin American, or Native American. Their dreams increasingly demand a realization that has little to do with the romantic dream of San Francisco. But both the dreams and the realities are important, for they are interwoven in the fabric of the city that might be called Paradox-by-the-Bay.
Aug 27, 2013 · This 1859 map of San Francisco was extremely utilitarian. The map is a chart, used primarily by sailors and those looking to navigate their way to the city on the bay.. “How did you get to San...
Dec 18, 2009 · Within months, San Francisco (renamed from Yerba Buena in 1847) became the central port and depot of the frenzied Gold Rush. Over the next year, arriving “forty-niners” increased the city’s ...
In 1856, San Francisco became a consolidated city-county. [27] After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, [28] it was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama–Pacific International Exposition nine years later.
This beautiful map of San Francisco shows a birds-eye view from the bay looking South West. It was made in 1878 long before the devastating earthquake in 1906. The map is illustrated with skewed docks and surrounding steam and sailing ships, hills, and ocean beyond.
Map of the city of San Francisco. Description: Very rapid changes took place during the 1840s and 1850s in the peninsula city known first as Yerba Buena and later renamed San Francisco in 1847. After the gold rush of 1848 to 1849 the city expanded rapidly.
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