A guide to the lost place names and geographies of San Francisco Spring Valley was an outlying suburb of early San Francisco that developed along the western slopes of Russian Hill in the 1840s and 1850s. Located in what would today be the Cow Hollow neighborhood, Spring Valley was comprised of two distinct settlements: Washerwoman’s Lagoon, a small spring-fed body of water known as far…
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I have recently migrated the San Francisco Historical Street Names Index away from Google Fusion Tables since the index, at the moment, lacks a spatial component. The data, however, is still available online as an interactive index through a simple Google Spreadsheet view. The spreadsheet allows users to filter, sort, and view the historical data in a much simpler and…
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A guide to the lost place names and geographies of San Francisco. Today’s entry of lost place names and geographies is Cannon Hill, a hill of about 370 feet that is located at the southeast corner of today’s Presidio. Cannon Hill is the location of the original survey point that outlined the United States claim to the military reservation known as the…
Read More » You can now find an online index of San Francisco’s historical street names. The index contains a list of street names that have been altered over the years, as well as street names that have simply been lost due to changes in the city’s built environment. The reference tool is available to anyone online (scholars, amateur historians, etc.) and includes…
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