Potrero Hill Historic Maps

Unfinished History

1859-USGS-Coast-Survey-Map Potrero-Hill-Mission-Bay-East-Mission-excerpt.jpg

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. Note the "rope walk" at shore middle left (see photo below).

Map: courtesy David Rumsey

1861-Wackenruder-Map-of-SF Potrero-Hill-excerpt.jpg

1861 Wackenruder Map, showing Potrero Hill excerpt. Note the small black diagonal line indicating the "rope walk" at shore middle left (see photo below)

Map: courtesy David Rumsey

Map-3-1869-Salt-Marsh-Tidelands-auction-map3970000.jpg

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

Map: courtesy David Rumsey

1873-Bancrofts-SF-map Potrero-Hill-excerpt.jpg

1873 Bancroft Map of San Francisco, Potrero Hill and surroundings

Map: courtesy David Rumsey

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 the first two 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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