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The San Francisco Bay Discovery Site is a marker commemorating the first recorded European sighting of San Francisco Bay. In 1769, the Portola expedition traveled north by land from San Diego, seeking to establish a base at the Port of Monterey described by Sebastian Vizcaino in 1602. When they reached Monterey, however, they were not sure it ...
Edwin Klockars' Blacksmith Shop is a historic 1912 building in the Rincon Hill neighborhood at 443 Folsom Street, San Francisco, California, United States. [2] It remained an active blacksmith shop within multiple generations of the same family, from 1912 until 2017. [3] It has been listed by the city as a San Francisco Designated Landmark ...
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)
[25] [26] He stopped at the Presidio of San Francisco long enough to create an outline map of the Bay Area, Plan du port de St. François, situé sur la côte de la Californie septentrionale ("Map of the port of San Francisco, situated on the coast of Northern California"), which was reproduced as Map 33 in L. Aubert's 1797 Atlas du voyage de ...
San Francisco, [23] officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center within Northern California.With a population of 808,988 residents as of 2023, [14] San Francisco is the fourth-most populous city in the state of California and the 17th-most populous in the United States.
Black San Francisco: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the West, 1900–1954. Burchell, R. A. (1980). The San Francisco Irish, 1848–1880. Chen, Yong (2002). Chinese San Francisco, 1850–1943: A Trans-Pacific Community. Cordova, Cary (2017). The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco. Daniels, Douglas Henry (1980).
The US Post Office issued a set of four postage stamps to commemorate the exposition, with designs depicting a profile of Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1¢), the Pedro Miguel Locks of the Panama Canal (2¢), the Golden Gate (5¢), and the discovery of San Francisco Bay (10¢). The stamps were first put on sale in 1913, to promote the coming event ...
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.