Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Yerba buena or hierba buena is the Spanish name for a number of aromatic plants, most of which belong to the mint family. Yerba buena translates as "good herb". The specific plant species regarded as yerba buena varies from region to region, depending on what grows wild in the surrounding landscape, or which species is customarily grown in ...
In the Spanish and Mexican eras of San Francisco, the undeveloped northwestern corner of San Francisco, where the plant was abundant, was given the name El Paraje de Yerba Buena (Place of the Yerba Buena). The area included Yerba Buena Cove, a favored anchorage, and the name was later extended to the Isla de la Yerba Buena (Yerba Buena Island ...
Hierba buena (Good herb) is a name given to a variety of mint teas sold loose in many markets. This is similar to yerba mate , used throughout many Latin American countries as mate , and widely regarded to have health benefits.
The uninhabited northeastern area of San Francisco was called El Paraje de Yerba Buena (The Place of the Good Herb), derived from the Spanish geographical term paraje, meaning "place", "camp", or "stopping point" and yerba buena, the Spanish name for plants in the mint family, used in Alta California for Clinopodium douglasii, which grew abundantly in this area.
Juana Briones de Miranda (c. 1802 – 1889) was a Californio ranchera, medical practitioner, and merchant, often remembered as the "Founding Mother of San Francisco", [1] [2] for her noted involvement in the early development of the city of San Francisco (then known as Yerba Buena).
The Spanish word saucelito is believed to refer to a small cluster of willows, a moist-soil tree, indicating the presence of a freshwater spring and/or creek [5] (possibly Coyote Creek). "Birthplace of a great city" plaque at 823 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, commemorating Richardson's erection of Yerba Buena's first housing structure in 1835
Upgrade to a faster, more secure version of a supported browser. It's free and it only takes a few moments:
The most likely explanation is that mansa is a Spanish alteration of the original native word for the plant, now lost in the depths of time." [8] Hartweg, who collected it at León, Guanajuato in 1837, recorded the local name as yerba del manso. [9] It is also known as yerba del manso in northern Baja California. The word "manso" could be short ...