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2. SS California (1848) - Wikipedia

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   SS California was one of the first steamships to steam in the Pacific Ocean and the first steamship to travel from Central America to North America. She was built for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company which was founded on April 18, 1848, as a joint stock company in the State of New York by a group of New York City merchants: William H. Aspinwall, Edwin Bartlett, Henry Chauncey, Mr. Alsop, G.G ...

3. Steamboats of California - Wikipedia

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   Its schedule became, to leave San Francisco on Mondays and Thursdays at 7 a.m.; returning, it left Sacramento on Wednesdays and Fridays at 7 a.m.. $30 was charged for passage in cabins, $20 on deck, berths in staterooms $5, $1.50 meals for cabin passengers only. Heavy freight was $2.50/100 pounds or $1.00 per foot for measured goods. [5]

4. California Steam Navigation Company - Wikipedia

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   Sophie McLean: The ship was built for the company's San Francisco - San Jose route. She was launched on January 18, 1859. [120] The vessel blew up at the dock while getting up steam in October 1865. [121] Surprise: She was built in San Francisco and had her sea trial on April 2, 1855. She ran in competition to the company, but by November 1855 ...

5. Green Tortoise - Wikipedia

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   Green Tortoise Adventure Travel is an American long-distance tour bus company founded by Gardner Kent in mid-1973 [1] [2] and based in San Francisco, California. It provides tours in North America, mostly within the United States. It operates a bus line and hostels in Seattle and San Francisco.

6. Portolá expedition - Wikipedia

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   The Discovery of San Francisco Bay: The Portolá Expedition of 1769–1770 / El Descubrimiento de la Bahía de San Francisco: La Expedición de Portolá de 1769–1770 (in English and Spanish). Translated by Maria L. Wait. Lafayette, California: Great West Books. ISBN 978-0944220061. (The Diary of Miguel Costansó)

7. El Camino Real (California) - Wikipedia

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   El Camino Real (Spanish; literally The Royal Road, sometimes translated as The King's Highway) is a 600-mile (965-kilometer) commemorative route connecting the 21 Spanish missions in California (formerly the region Alta California in the Spanish Empire), along with a number of sub-missions, four presidios, and three pueblos.