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 ...

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 ...