Henry Mayo Newhall, future namesake of the city of Newhall, arrived in San Francisco at the age of 25, hoping to ...

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The Old Mint opened its creaky old doors Saturday to hundreds of San Francisco history buffs, providing a walk down memory lane for 50-year-old city native Kelly Cornell. With a wistful smile on ...

San Francisco is one of the best U.S. cities for history buffs, though many are unaware just how old the city is.The Spanish Empire settled here in 1776, the same year that the 13 Colonies ...

Fort Point in San Francisco, now a U.S. National Historic Site, was a cutting-edge fort during the Civil War made from millions of hand-cut bricks. It can look rather humble in the Golden Gate ...

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That makes it the fifth deadliest wildfire in state history, leaping over three fires that each caused 15 deaths -- the Rattlesnake Fire of 1953 in Northern California, the 2003 Cedar Fire in San ...