Panoramic view across Richmond district 1901 San Francisco History Collection From Sand Dunes to the City by the Bay (Fourth in series of stories supplementing the upcoming public television documentary) San Francisco, with its Mediterranean climate, and annual rainfall of about 22 inches, was once over 7 miles of sand dunes that stretched from Ocean […]
(Third in series of stories supplementing the upcoming public television documentary) Water and the Wilderness: Two Engineers who shaped San Francisco In the 1830’s, before the discovery of gold in the Sierras, San Francisco was little more than a vast sand dune sparsely populated, with less than 800 traders, explorers and adventurers mostly from the Boston […]
(Second in Series of stories supplementing the upcoming public television documentary) All That Glitter’s Ain’t Gold – Sometimes It’s Something Far More Valuable The Gold Rush of 1849 created a need in San Francisco more valuable than the nuggets being extracted from the Sierras. In less than one year the population of the city swelled from […]