The great San Francisco earthquake of 1906: a century ago, the American West's greatest city was nearly destroyed.

From: Junior Scholastic | Date: March 27, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

* OBJECTIVE

Students should understand

* that San Francisco, then the most important city in the rapidly growing American West, was nearly destroyed by an earthquake and resulting fires in 1906.

* BACKGROUND

The first Europeans to arrive at what now is San Francisco were the Spanish, who in 1776 established Mission Dolores and a fort in an area that later became the Presidio (an area of San Francisco, once a military base, that is now part of the National Park Service). In 1835, an English captain put up the first permanent residence in Yerba Buena Cove. U.S. ...

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