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Yerba Buena was the original name of the settlement that later became San Francisco, California.

The original plaza of the Spanish settlement remains as Portsmouth Square. Today's city took its name from the mission, and Yerba Buena became the name of a San Francisco neighborhood now known as South of Market. The Moscone Center and Yerba Buena Gardens are in the Yerba Buena area.

The results: Most people use San Francisco and only San Francisco. But San Fran is (alas) an increasingly popular alternative, as is the acronym SF. More elaborate and grandiose terms like Golden Gate City and City By the Bay are less common now, at least in this one sampling.

The oldest buildings in San Francisco. No surprise here: Mission Dolores is the oldest building in San Francisco. The Mision San Francisco de Asis was founded in 1776 and the present-day Mission church was dedicated in 1791. At its peak in the early 1800s, about 1,100 Native Americans lived around Pueblo Dolores.

Yerba Buena was the original name of San Francisco (Spanish for St. Francis) when in the Spanish Las Californias Province of New Spain, and then after 1822 in the Mexican territory of Alta California, until the Mexican American War ended with the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, when California became a territory of ...

The first recorded European discovery of San Francisco Bay was on November 4, 1769 when Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portolà, unable to find the port of Monterey, California, continued north close to what is now Pacifica and reached the summit of the 1,200-foot-high (370 m) Sweeney Ridge, now marked as the place where he ...

So now you know - SFO means "San Francisco International Airport" - don't thank us. ... What does SFO mean? SFO is an acronym, abbreviation or slang word that is explained above where the SFO definition is given.

San Francisco International Airport (IATA: SFO, ICAO: KSFO, FAA LID: SFO) is an international airport near San Bruno and Millbrae in unincorporated San Mateo County.

Chicago's O'Hare airport (ORD) was once known as Orchard Field Airport, named after a small town that was once nearby, Orchard Place. In New Orleans, MSY got its name from the Moisant Stock Yards.

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The geology you see around San Francisco is the result of forces along the Pacific and North American plates. Today, the Pacific Plate is slowly creeping north past the North American Plate, forming the San Andreas fault system. ... Our old rocks were the result of a tectonic plate movement called subduction.

20,000 years ago, the Earth was in the depth of the last ice age. ... During the last ice age, the area now occupied by the Bay was a large river valley. Water draining from the Sierra Nevada and nearby mountain ranges formed a grand river that flowed through the Golden Gate, across the Farallon plain and into the ocean.

Today's San Francisco Bay was a series of broad, dry valleys within the Coast Ranges. As the ice age ended about 10,000 years ago, the glaciers began to melt and the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers carried huge flows of water and sediment down from the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

San Francisco San Francisco was founded on June 29, 1776, when colonists from Spain established Presidio of San Francisco at the Golden Gate and Mission San Francisco de Asís a few miles away, all named for St. Francis of Assisi.

But it begins in San Francisco Bay. Salty water from the bay is captured in vast ponds, where it starts to evaporate because of heat from the sun and drying by the wind. At first, the ponds are green or brownish in color, like the bay itself.