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Title
Bancroft s Official Guide Map of City and County of San Francisco, Compiled from Official Maps in Surveyor s Office.
1891 (dated)
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Description
A stunning 1891 example of Bancroft s important city plan or map of San Francisco, California. This map covers the northern top of the San Francisco Peninsula from the Pacific Ocean to San Francisco Bay and as far south as Rancho Canada de Guadeloupe. Bancroft employs shading to distinguish between developed and undeveloped lots. At bottom there is a numerical key wherein some 396 individual buildings are located and categorized. Concentric circles indicate half-mile distances from the ferries. Development extends as far as the Ocean Race Track. Rancho Laguna de la Merced, San Miguel Rancho, and Rancho Cañada de Guadalupe Rodeo Viejo y Vistación are at this point undeveloped. An inset on the right details the greater San Francisco Bay area.
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The history of San Francisco’s Lake Merced from 1830-1870.
San Francisco s Lake Merced: Rancho Days
by Woody LaBounty
(Published in Outside Lands magazine with support from the Schwemm Family Foundation.)
Since the 1850s, Lake Merced and the land around it have been the site of roadhouses, a famous duel, truck farms, and large scale city within a city housing developments. Located in the southwestern corner of the City and County of San Francisco, the lake has been used as a source for the city s water supply and for recreational activities from skeet shooting to golf to dragon boat racing. Despite encroaching urbanization, watershed changes, fragmentation, and aquifer reduction during the twentieth century, the lake remains a unique habitat supporting riparian, dune scrub, and woodland forest natural communities. Read part one.