In the late 1800s, the small island became a popular summer retreat where San Franciscans would ferry over “not to cool down, but to warm up.

In October 1910, he was the star of the Watsonville Apple Show near Santa Cruz, easily winning the “first world’s championship box making contests ever held,” reported the San Francisco Call ...

A stolen family heirloom dating back to the 1870s was returned to a San Francisco resident on Feb. 25, following an investigation by the San Francisco Police Department’s burglary unit.