Mission Creek Waterfall (site) (San Francisco, California)

USA / California / San Francisco / San Francisco, California
 creek, place with historical importance, historical layer / disappeared object
Urban creek waterfall, described by the 1776 de Anza expedition.
The creek was the original water source, and reason for location, of Mission Dolores in 1776. Entirely buried now in conduits, the creek still runs east from Twin Peaks down 18th Street to what was a small lake, Laguna de los Dolores, near the Mission on Dolores & 17th streets, then to what formerly was a large South of Market marsh, and now to its current China Basin outlet. (Reference: Doris Sloan, Geology of the SF Bay Region, UCPress 2006, p.111.)
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Creek
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Coordinates:   37°45'39"N   122°26'6"W
This article was last modified 7 years ago