. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. le-ends was common, andin some places streets and buildings sank somewhat. The present generation has almost forgottenwhat was well known to its predecessors: that muchof San Franciscos downtown district had been builton filled-in tide-flats and marshes. The manner inwhich it had been filled in they did not realize at all. The old maps of the city show plainly enoughthat in the early days the water came up close tothe hills. The inlet at Yerba Buena Cove, aroundwhich
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. le-ends was common, andin some places streets and buildings sank somewhat. The present generation has almost forgottenwhat was well known to its predecessors: that muchof San Franciscos downtown district had been builton filled-in tide-flats and marshes. The manner inwhich it had been filled in they did not realize at all. The old maps of the city show plainly enoughthat in the early days the water came up close tothe hills. The inlet at Yerba Buena Cove, aroundwhich the first settlement had sprung up, extendedfrom the base of Telegraph Hill on the north (atJackson and Montgomery) to the foot of RinconHill on the south (at Folsom below Fremont)almost in a direct line. South of Market, everythingeast of Fremont street is made land; California,east of Battery, and Clay, east of Sansome, were,similarly, under water. The upper view in the groupentitled Early San Francisco, shows this inlet asseen from Rincon Hill, with Telegraph Hill in thecenter distance; a view of the same scene taken a. Hecht Collection Buildings Damaged by Earthquake in 1868 V r / X ^<^ 0^ /^^_ -^v
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