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'''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>'''
 
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'''Photograph of Yerba Buena Cove in 1851'''
'''Photograph of Yerba Buena Cove in 1851'''


Ships Under the Financial District
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[[Right to Testify |1]]
'''Map of ships buried under San Francisco Financial District.'''
 
''Map by Sam Manera, 2013, based on an earlier map by Ron Filion, 2000.''
 
 
[[Image:Satty-p-32-asbury-quote-ships.jpg]]
 
''Collage depicting ships piled into Yerba Buena cove by [[Satty and the "North Beach U-Boat"|Satty]], from "Visions of Frisco" edited by Walter Medeiros, Regent Press 2007''
 
''During the height of the gold excitement, there were at least five hundred ships stranded in the harbor, some without even a watchman on board, and none with a crew sufficiently large to work her. Many of these vessels never sailed again. Some rotted away and sank at their moorings.'' (Herbert Asbury in "The Barbary Coast")


[[ The Prison Ship 'Euphemia'  | 6]]


[[Image:downtwn1$1851-cove-map-closeup.jpg]]
[[Image:downtwn1$1851-cove-map-closeup.jpg]]


'''1851 cove map closeup. The shadowed area is roughly the outline of Yerba Buena Cove when the city was founded.'''
'''1851 cove map closeup. The shadowed area is roughly the outline of Yerba Buena Cove when the city was founded and there are more than 70 old wooden ships buried in the old cove that is now part of the city.'''
 
'''Ships Under the Financial District'''
 
[[Right to Testify |The ''Niantic'']]
 
[[ The Prison Ship 'Euphemia'  | The ''Euphemia'']]
 
[[Image:Chandler-w-arrow1053.jpg]]
 
''Photo: Chris Carlsson''
 
[[Image:Chandler 1048.jpg]]
 
''Photo: Chris Carlsson''
 
'''A ship dug up in 2005 at Spear and Folsom was discovered to be the ''Candace'', an 1830s sailing ship that had found its last anchorage under the growing city.'''
 
[[Image:Folsom-and-main-over-chandler-ruins 3442.jpg]]
 
'''These are the finished buildings on the site above where the ''Candace'' was found.'''
 
''Photo: Chris Carlsson''
 
[[Image:Buried-ship-being-excavated 23-3-490x640.jpg]]


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Revision as of 23:05, 12 May 2018

Unfinished History

Downtwn1$yerba-buena-cove-1851.jpg

Photograph of Yerba Buena Cove in 1851

Map of ships buried under San Francisco Financial District.

Map by Sam Manera, 2013, based on an earlier map by Ron Filion, 2000.


Satty-p-32-asbury-quote-ships.jpg

Collage depicting ships piled into Yerba Buena cove by Satty, from "Visions of Frisco" edited by Walter Medeiros, Regent Press 2007

During the height of the gold excitement, there were at least five hundred ships stranded in the harbor, some without even a watchman on board, and none with a crew sufficiently large to work her. Many of these vessels never sailed again. Some rotted away and sank at their moorings. (Herbert Asbury in "The Barbary Coast")


Downtwn1$1851-cove-map-closeup.jpg

1851 cove map closeup. The shadowed area is roughly the outline of Yerba Buena Cove when the city was founded and there are more than 70 old wooden ships buried in the old cove that is now part of the city.

Ships Under the Financial District

The Niantic

The Euphemia

Chandler-w-arrow1053.jpg

Photo: Chris Carlsson

Chandler 1048.jpg

Photo: Chris Carlsson

A ship dug up in 2005 at Spear and Folsom was discovered to be the Candace, an 1830s sailing ship that had found its last anchorage under the growing city.

Folsom-and-main-over-chandler-ruins 3442.jpg

These are the finished buildings on the site above where the Candace was found.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

Buried-ship-being-excavated 23-3-490x640.jpg


Tours-shoreline.gif Continue Shoreline Tour

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