San Francisco
San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the leading financial and
cultural of stateof California and it's located in the far-west of USA.
The earliest archaeological evidence of human habitation of the territory of the city of San
Francisco dates to 3000 BC. The Yelamu group of the Ohlone people resided in several small
villages when a Spanish exploration party, led by Don Gaspar de Portolà arrived on November 2,
1769, the first documented European visit to San Francisco Bay.
Upon independence from Spain in 1821, the area became part of Mexico. Under Mexican rule,
the mission system gradually ended and its lands began to be privatized. In 1835, Englishman
William Richardson erected the first independent homestead, near a boat anchorage around what