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Portsmouth Square, San Francisco, 1851
Credit: Unknown
An 1851
daguerreotype
of
Portsmouth Square
,
San Francisco, California
. Now a one-
block
square in
Chinatown
, it is located on the site of the first
public square
established in
Yerba Buena
, the Mexican community that became San Francisco. It is named after the
USS Portsmouth
, which raised the
American flag
here at the onset of the
Mexican–American War
.
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Portal:North America
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Portsmouth Square, San Francisco, 1851
Credit: Unknown
An 1851
daguerreotype
of
Portsmouth Square
,
San Francisco, California
. Now a one-
block
square in
Chinatown
, it is located on the site of the first
public square
established in
Yerba Buena
, the Mexican community that became San Francisco. It is named after the
USS Portsmouth
, which raised the
American flag
here at the onset of the
Mexican–American War
.
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