Two New England style duplexes were built to house families of lighthouse keepers, the landing platform was rebuilt to ease comings and goings, and a proper fog signal was installed. To facilitate ...
Chicken eggs were hard to come by in San Francisco's gold rush days, so those who braved the 70 mile round-trip voyage to the Farallones to collect murre eggs (double the size of a chicken egg with...
With the discovery of gold in 1948, San Francisco was transformed from a sleepy hamlet into a major port nearly over night. Thousands of argonauts descended on the Golden Gate, often wrecking their...