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  2. Surrey Docks Farm - Wikipedia

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    In April 1980 the Farm registered as a Provident Society; it has now become a community benefit society. [3] In June 1986 the farm was re-located to its present site, a new 2.2-acre (8,900 m 2) site on the River Thames at South Wharf. During the working lifetime of the docks South Wharf formed part of the largest shipyard on the Rotherhithe ...

  3. Surrey Commercial Docks - Wikipedia

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    Eventually, 85% of the peninsula, an area of 460 acres (1.9 km 2), was covered by a system of nine docks, six timber ponds and a canal. Several of the docks were named after the origins of their customers' cargos, hence Canada Dock, Quebec Pond, Norway Dock and Russia Dock.

  4. San Francisco Historical Society - Wikipedia

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    The San Francisco Historical Society is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation, interpretation, and presentation of the history of San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area. [1] It is a membership-based organization that holds monthly speaking programs, conducts walking tours of San Francisco and publishes original research.

  5. Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Selected historical image ...

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    The Negi family, operators of a forty-acre intensively cultivated, leased truck farm, completes arrangements with a Chinese business man who is taking over this farm and equipment at the time of the family's voluntary evacuation to Colorado prior to Civilian Exclusion Orders." May 1942

  6. National Register of Historic Places listings in San Francisco

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    Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay: San Francisco Bay: Former maximum security Federal prison, from which Frank Morris but few others escaped, now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and visited by tourist ferries. 4: ALMA (Scow Schooner)

  7. List of Landmarks and Historic Places in San Francisco

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    This is a combined list of all national, state, and local landmarks and historic places in San Francisco, California. Some locations appear on multiple lists. Some locations appear on multiple lists. National

  8. Hunters Point Naval Shipyard - Wikipedia

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    During the early 20th century much of the Hunters Point shoreline was extended by landfill extensions into the San Francisco Bay. Between World War I and the beginning of World War II the Navy contracted with the private owners for the use of the docks. The docks provided deep-water facilities between San Diego and Bremerton, Washington.

  9. List of museums in the San Francisco Bay Area - Wikipedia

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    This list of museums in the San Francisco Bay Area is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.