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Yerba
Buena was founded in 1835 when Captain William A.
Richardson was made Harbor Master by Governor Figueroa, and set up
his tent at what is now Grant Ave., between Clay and Washington streets (near
Yerba Buena Cove), the soon-to-be Portsmouth Square.
In
1846, the United States took Yerba Buena from Mexico, and later that
year, on July 8, Commodore J.B. Montgomery sailed into San Francisco
Bay on board the USS Portsmouth. On July 9 Commodore Montgomery raised
the United States flag in the plaza in front of the Mexican Custom
House, hence the name Portsmouth Plaza or Square. In 1847, Yerba
Buena is renamed San Francisco by the United States. Portsmouth Square has
remained an open space in San Franciso to the present. |
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