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On December 12, 1884, the War Department designated 9 acres (3.6 ha), including the site of the old post cemetery, as San Francisco National Cemetery. It was the first national cemetery established on the West Coast and marks the growth and development of a system of national cemeteries extending beyond the battlefields of the Civil War.
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival (also known as Yerba Buena Arts & Events, and YBGF) is an admission-free performing arts festival held in San Francisco, California.During the summer months, May to October, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival produces concerts and performances including music, dance, theater, circus and children's programs.
The Presidio of San Francisco is the only site in a national recreation area with an extensive residential leasing program. The Presidio has four creeks that park stewards and volunteers are restoring to expand their riparian habitats' former extents. The creeks are Lobos and Dragonfly creeks, El Polin Spring, and Coyote Gulch.
Among the local artists who have designed posters for the festival are Jo Jackson, and Andrew Schultz, key artists in the Mission School art movement, and centered on Adobe Books. In 2009 and 2010, the festival has hosted free one-day outdoor concerts attended by 1,200 people in John McLaren Park, the second largest park in San Francisco.
The event primarily features electronic dance music. Limited to people over the age of 21, it is intended to "present electronic music in an adult way". [1] [2] The festival is named after the 1909 Portola Festival, an event thrown by the city of San Francisco to demonstrate its recovery from the 1906 earthquake. [3] [4] The event received ...
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