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Prior to European exploration, the northern San Francisco peninsula was inhabited by the Ramaytush, a linguistic sub-group of the Ohlone people. Their village of Urebure on San Bruno Creek was visited by the Gaspar de Portolà expedition in 1769; remains of long-term (5,000+ years) inhabitancy and seasonal encampments have been examined at the Siplichiquin [7] and Buckeye [8] shell-mounds on ...
Tiburon (/ ˈ t ɪ b ə r ɒ n / TIB-ər-on; Spanish: Tiburón, [tiβuˈɾon]) [9] is an incorporated town in Marin County, California.It is located on the Tiburon Peninsula, which reaches south into the San Francisco Bay.
Melanie Lyn McGuire (née Slate; born October 8, 1972) [3] is an American former nurse who was convicted of murdering her husband on April 28, 2004, in what media dubbed the "suitcase murder". [4]
Numbering plan areas in California (blue) and border states. Area codes 415 and 628 are shown in red. Area codes 415 and 628 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the city of San Francisco and its northern suburbs in Marin County (across the Golden Gate), and the northeast corner of San Mateo County in the U.S. state of California.
Property values fell and a largely gay population moved in. [3] Seeing the change in the neighborhood, Archbishop John R. Quinn appointed Fr. Tony McGuire as pastor of the church in 1983. [3] McGuire brought together the largely older women who made up most of the remaining congregation and the few gay men who joined the parish. [3]
San Quentin State Prison: SQ Marin: 1852 Yes Not formally designated, but has substantial reentry programming 3,082 3,776 122.5% California's only death row for men is at San Quentin. The prison was constructed by incarcerated men on the Waban, a ship anchored in San Francisco Bay and California's first prison. Sierra Conservation Center: SCC ...
The San Francisco Housing Authority is a local public housing authority for the City and County of San Francisco that was established in 1938 after the Housing Act of 1937 was enacted by the U.S. Federal Government.
United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, also known simply as Alcatraz (English: / ˈ æ l k ə ˌ t r æ z /, Spanish: [a l k a ˈ t ɾ a θ] "the gannet") or The Rock, was a maximum security federal prison on Alcatraz Island, 1.25 miles (2.01 km) off the coast of San Francisco, California, United States.