Potrero Hill Historic Maps: Difference between revisions

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Unfinished History

1859 USGS Coastal Survey Map showing Potrero Hill, Mission Bay (and Mission Rock out in the water), and the eastern part of the Mission District when there were two horse racing tracks occupying what is today all residential.

Map: courtesy David Rumsey

1861 Wackenruder Map, showing Potrero Hill excerpt.

Map: courtesy David Rumsey

1869 Salt Marsh Tidelands auction map, showing disposition of various parcels before the imminent sale of still submerged tidelands.

Map: courtesy David Rumsey

1873 Bancroft Map of San Francisco, Potrero Hill and surroundings

Map: courtesy David Rumsey

These massive ropes were made at the Tubbs Cordage Company, which is visible as a small diagonal line on some of the maps above, south of Potrero Hill in today's Dogpatch neighborhood, along the shoreline.

Photo: San Francisco Maritime National Historical Museum

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+[[Image:1859-USGS-Coast-Survey-Map Potrero-Hill-Mission-Bay-East-Mission-excerpt.jpg|720px|thumb]]
-'''1857 Map of North Eastern Part of San Francisco County. '''
+'''1859 USGS Coastal Survey Map showing Potrero Hill, [[MISSION BAY|Mission Bay]] (and [[Mission Rock|Mission Rock]] out in the water), and the eastern part of the Mission District when there were two horse racing tracks occupying what is today all residential.'''
-'''Potrero Hill is just right of the center with a rough circle outlining it.'''
+''Map: courtesy [http://www.davidrumsey.com David Rumsey]''
-[[Image:pothill$1869-us-coast-survey-map.jpg]]
+[[Image:1861-Wackenruder-Map-of-SF Potrero-Hill-excerpt.jpg|720px|thumb]]
-'''1869 U.S. Coast Survey Map. '''
+'''1861 Wackenruder Map, showing Potrero Hill excerpt.'''
-'''Potrero Hill is the center of the peninsula in the center of the map.'''
+''Map: courtesy [http://www.davidrumsey.com David Rumsey]''
+[[Image:Map-3-1869-Salt-Marsh-Tidelands-auction-map3970000.jpg|720px|thumb]]
+'''1869 Salt Marsh Tidelands auction map, showing disposition of various parcels before the imminent sale of still submerged tidelands.'''
+''Map: courtesy [http://www.davidrumsey.com David Rumsey]''
+[[Image:1873-Bancrofts-SF-map Potrero-Hill-excerpt.jpg|720px|thumb]]
+'''1873 Bancroft Map of San Francisco, Potrero Hill and surroundings'''
+''Map: courtesy [http://www.davidrumsey.com David Rumsey]''
+[[Image:Tubbs-cordage-shipment-for-Josselyn-and-Co 2090.jpg]]
+'''These massive ropes were made at the Tubbs Cordage Company, which is visible as a small diagonal line on some of the maps above, south of Potrero Hill in today's [[Dogpatch|Dogpatch]] neighborhood, along the shoreline.'''
+''Photo: San Francisco Maritime National Historical Museum''
-''Maps: Potrero Hill Archives Project''
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