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Visitacion Valley is a residential, family-oriented, working-class neighborhood. Average incomes and housing price for the area is lower than the citywide average. It is one of the few affordable neighborhoods remaining in San Francisco [7].
Sunnydale station (also signed as Visitacion Valley) is a light rail station on the Muni Metro T Third Street line, located in the median of Bayshore Boulevard in the Visitacion Valley neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States. The station opened as the terminus of the T Third Street line on April 7, 2007.
Bordered by Geneva Avenue to the south, Sawyer Street to the east, Sunnydale Avenue to the north and geographically isolated McLaren Park to the west. Known for its notoriously high crime rate and housing projects on Sunnydale Avenue, also known as "the Swamp" or "the Dale". It is the center of Visitacion Valley's African American community. [49]
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The neighborhood extends to its end at the county line. Over the years, as the southern end of San Francisco was developed, the city created Major neighborhoods & Districts within the area, and these were given names that appeared on city maps. These are: Bernal Heights, Ingleside, The Excelsior District, Visitacion Valley & The Bay View District.
The railroad planned to build an extensive terminal facility in Visitacion Valley that would serve as the primary maintenance and marshaling facility for the San Francisco Peninsula. Financial problems delayed completion of the project, and the 250-acre (1.0 km 2) Bayshore rail yard and shops did not open until 1918. The facility operated ...
John McLaren Park is a park in southeastern San Francisco.At 312.54 acres (126.48 ha), McLaren Park is the third largest park in San Francisco by area, after Golden Gate Park and the Presidio.
Plat of rancho in 1864. Jacob Primer Leese (1809–1892), a trader from Ohio, married María Rosalia Vallejo, sister of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, in 1837.Lesse, who first came to California in 1833, took possession of the land grant entitled Rancho Cañada de Guadalupe la Visitacion y Rodeo Viejo in 1838, three years before he received the official title to the land.