San Francisco grew quickly from a late start. Europeans only reached the Bay Area in 1769, and the first permanent, civilian, non-Native American settlement dates only to 1835.

“San Francisco From Rincon Hill,” 1850. Oldest Photos of SF [Only In Your State] 1847 Photo [SF Museum] Gold Rush Images [Getty] SF Library Archive; Next Up In News.

San Francisco was founded on June 29, 1776. It was incorporated on April 15, 1850. I've always considered June 29 to be San Francisco's birthday ...

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

On the morning of March 5, 1858, San Francisco's black community was on high alert. For days, organized groups had been patrolling the waterfront. On March 5, word went out that the two men they ...

The exhibition, up through March 10 at San Francisco’s California Historical Society, documents how California (which became a state in 1850) and photography grew up together, and how photos ...

No matter where the home came from, the 1850-or-earlier construction date does make the home the oldest in San Francisco — though in terms of nonresidential structures, Mission Dolores and the ...

One of San Francisco’s Oldest Homes Hits the Market for $22 Million The circa-1850 mansion in Russian Hill was one of the few that survived the fires following the 1906 earthquake ...