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Article: The great San Francisco earthquake of 1906: a century ago, the American West's greatest city was nearly destroyed.
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- Junior Scholastic
- Article date:
- March 27, 2006
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* 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. sailors arrived to claim the town in 1846 and, on January 30, 1847, it was ...