What to see in America . Eagle Falls near Lake Tahoe California 461. DuLuHt. niuS, 6a.\ i KANCISCO saw that he had mealand money to go onwith, and perhaps arush-braided flagon ofMission wine. Whenthere began to be ranchhouses on the plainstheir Spanish and ]Mexi-can owners observedthis same hospitality. One of the FranciscanMissions and a Spanish military post known as a presidiowere established on the site of San Francisco in 1776. Thepresidio was beside the Golden Gate and the Mission threemiles southeast. Sixty years later the settlement of YerbaBuena, a name that means the Pleasant Herb, w
What to see in America . Eagle Falls near Lake Tahoe California 461. DuLuHt. niuS, 6a.\ i KANCISCO saw that he had mealand money to go onwith, and perhaps arush-braided flagon ofMission wine. Whenthere began to be ranchhouses on the plainstheir Spanish and ]Mexi-can owners observedthis same hospitality. One of the FranciscanMissions and a Spanish military post known as a presidiowere established on the site of San Francisco in 1776. Thepresidio was beside the Golden Gate and the Mission threemiles southeast. Sixty years later the settlement of YerbaBuena, a name that means the Pleasant Herb, was begunby a little cove southeast of Telegraph Hill. The name SanFrancisco was applied to all three settlements. There wereless than a thousand inhabitants in May, 1848. The placehad a school, and it had a newspaper, the first issue of which,printed on paper that the Spaniards used to wTap their ci- garritos, had ap-peared two yearsprevious. Thencame the findingof gold and therewas a stampedeto the regionwhere it hadbeen and sail-ors deserted,
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