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City and County of San Francisco: 075: San Francisco: 1850: original: The city of San Francisco, from Presidio of San Francisco and Mission San Francisco de Asís, named after Saint Francis of Assisi (Spanish for Saint Francis) Charter 808,988: 47 sq mi (122 km 2) San Joaquin County: 077: Stockton: 1850: original: Spanish for Saint Joachim ...
The Mission District (Spanish: Distrito de la Misión), [4] commonly known as the Mission (Spanish: La Misión), [5] is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California.One of the oldest neighborhoods in San Francisco, the Mission District's name is derived from Mission San Francisco de Asís, built in 1776 by the Spanish. [6]
San Francisco, San Rafael, Novato; all of San Francisco County, most of Marin County and a small portion of northern San Mateo County: October 1947; split numerous times since then; overlaid by 628 effective March 21, 2015 [2] 424: overlay with 310: started service on August 26, 2006. 442: overlay with 760: started service on October 24, 2009. 510
In 2005 Manrique opened Café de la Presse , San Francisco's celebrated Parisian-inspired bistro that enjoys the distinction of being among the city's most popular dining destinations. Three years later saw the opening of the wine bar Blanc et Rouge. Manrique continued his love of wine bars by opening Aquitaine Wine Bistro in April 2014.
The area was home to San Francisco's first French settlers. Approximately 3,000, sponsored by the French government, arrived near the end of the Gold Rush in 1851. [ 2 ] According to historian Gladys Hansen , the French shared Dupont Street (now Grant Avenue) with early Chinese settlers during the early days of Chinatown , and were more ...
Hillsborough is an incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area.It is located 17 miles (27 km) south of San Francisco on the San Francisco Peninsula, bordered by Burlingame to the north, San Mateo to the east, Highlands-Baywood Park to the south, and Interstate 280 to the west.
Belmont is a city in San Mateo County in the U.S. state of California. It is in the San Francisco Bay Area, on the San Francisco Peninsula about halfway between San Francisco and San Jose. It was originally part of Rancho de las Pulgas, for which one of its main roads, the Alameda de las Pulgas, is named. The city was incorporated in 1926.
Before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Van Ness Avenue was known as "the city’s grandest boulevard, lined with Victorian mansions and impressive churches" (San Francisco Chronicle). [6] After the earthquake, the street was used as a firebreak by the US Army , dynamiting almost all buildings on its eastern side in an ultimately successful ...