Gray Brothers Quarry at Corona Heights: Difference between revisions

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1880 View across upper Eureka Valley towards Mt. Olympus. Gray Brothers Corona Heights Quarry and Brick Factory on south slope of hill.

Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA

The Gray Brothers gained some infamy in turn of the century San Francisco, for they also operated destructive, noisy, dirty quarries on Telegraph Hill and at today's 30th Street and Castro. The Gray Brothers Quarry and brick factory on Corona Heights above bucolic Eureka Valley established in the 1890s. All this territory was once part of Rancho San Miguel.

By 1899, they had removed tons of rock and produced tens of thousands of bricks, creating the blasted landscape at left (seen from the hill between Eureka and Noe Valleys just west of Dolores Park). The Gray Brothers also quarried Telegraph Hill and Billy Goat Hill above Noe Valley.

Photo: Private collection, San Francisco, CA

Corona Heights from the north, looking south, 1926.

Photo: Private collection, San Francisco, CA

The Gray Brother's Brick Factory (on the right-hand slope of the hill, center) on Corona Heights as seen from Twin Peaks in 1900

Photo: Private collection, San Francisco, CA

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-'''1880 View across upper Eureka Valley towards Mt. Olympus. Gray Brothers [[Corona Heights Quarry]] and Brick Factory on south slope of hill.'''  ''Photo: Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco, CA''
+'''1880 View across upper Eureka Valley towards Mt. Olympus. Gray Brothers [[Corona Heights|Corona Heights]] Quarry and Brick Factory on south slope of hill.'''
-The Gray Brothers gained some infamy in turn of the century San Francisco, for they also operated destructive, noisy, dirty quarries on [[Saving Telegraph Hill 1890-1918]] and at today's [[30th and Castro South]] and Castro.
+''Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA''
-[[Image:Cushman-March-26,-1952-north-Diamond-from-20th-towards-Corona-Hts-P05903.jpg]]
+The Gray Brothers gained some infamy in turn of the century San Francisco, for they also operated destructive, noisy, dirty quarries on [[Saving Telegraph Hill 1890-1918| Telegraph Hill]] and at today's [[30th and Castro South|30th Street]] and Castro. The Gray Brothers Quarry and brick factory on [[Corona Heights|Corona Heights]] above bucolic Eureka Valley established in the 1890s. All this territory was once part of [[Rancho San Miguel Disappears|Rancho San Miguel]].
-'''Corona Heights above Eureka Valley, seen here from Diamond and 20th Streets, March 26, 1952.'''
+[[Image:ecology1$corona-hts-quarry-1899.jpg]]
-[http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/ ''Charles Cushman Collection: Indiana University Archives (P05903)'']
+'''By 1899, they had removed tons of rock and produced tens of thousands of bricks, creating the blasted landscape at left (seen from the hill between Eureka and Noe Valleys just west of Dolores Park). The Gray Brothers also quarried [[Telegraph Hill Quarry |Telegraph Hill]] and [[30th and Castro South |Billy Goat Hill]] above Noe Valley.'''
-[[Image:1965-diamond-st-view-north.jpg]]
+''Photo: Private collection, San Francisco, CA''
-'''1965 photo looking north on Diamond Street towards Julia Randall Museum on Corona Heights, former quarry site.'''
+[[Image:Corona-Heights-from-north-1926.jpg]]
+'''Corona Heights from the north, looking south, 1926.'''
+''Photo: Private collection, San Francisco, CA''
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+[[Image:ecology1$grey-bros-corona-heights-quarry$factory_itm$brick-factory-1900.jpg]]
+'''The Gray Brother's Brick Factory (on the right-hand slope of the hill, center) on Corona Heights as seen from Twin Peaks in 1900'''
-[[category:Castro]] [[category:Ecology]] [[category:1880s]]
+''Photo: Private collection, San Francisco, CA''
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