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 Encyclopedia of San Francisco
San Francisco's "Sunset District" is bordered on the north by Lincoln Way, on the west by the Great Highway, on the south by Sloat Boulevard, and on the east by a vague boundary going south from Arguello, Golden Gate Heights, the hill above Kezar Stadium, Golden Gate Heights, and 15th Avenue.
Nevertheless, the City and Country of San Francisco, which was growing rapidly, desired the land and petitioned for it in the 1850s.
After the earthquake and fire of 1906, approximately two-thirds of the population of San Francisco was left homeless.
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 San Francisco - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about San Francisco
Built in the 1930s, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge across San Francisco Bay is one of the longest combination bridges in the world and one of the great engineering feats of the 20th century.
The city is on the San Andreas fault, and was almost completely destroyed by an earthquake (equivalent to 8.3 on the Richter scale) and subsequent three-day fire in 1906.
San Francisco is situated at the northern end of the peninsula with the Bay of San Francisco to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west; San Bruno Mountain lies to the south.
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 Encyclopedia: San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
San Francisco, located at the mouth of the bay, was in a perfect location to prosper during the California gold rush.
San Francisco City Hall, April 20, 1906 The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a major earthquake at San Francisco, California on the early morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906.
The Emperor Norton's early work at promoting a bridge between San Francisco and Alameda County was commemorated on Tuesday, December 14th, 2004, when the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a resolution calling for the new eastern span of the bridge to be named after Norton.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/San-Francisco_Oakland-Bay-Bridge   (5802 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: San Francisco
Portola discovered the present San Francisco Bay 1 Nov., 1769, and as one of the chain of missions projected by Father Junipero Serra, the mission of San Francisco de Asis, called also the Mission Dolores, was founded 9 Oct., 1776 by his two Franciscan brethren Fathers Francisco Palou and Benito Cambon, both natives of Spain.
To meet his difficulty Pope Pius IX detached the Mexican territory from the Diocese of San Diego or Monterey, which had been erected by Pope Gregory XVI 27 April, 1840, and by decree of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda, 1 July, 1854, divided Upper California into the two dioceses of San Francisco and Monterey.
In the burned district, along with the churches all the institutions, schools, asylums, hospitals, the great Jesuit church and College of St. Ignatius, and the Sacred Heart College of the Christian Brothers -- were destroyed.
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