San Francisco's Bernal Heights (CA) (Images of America)

Type

Book

Authors

Bernal History Project

ISBN 10

0738547417

ISBN 13

9780738547411

Tags

History, Travel, State & Local, Pictorial

Description

San Francisco’s Bernal Heights is a hilltop village tucked away in the southern part of the city. Freeways and urban thoroughfares now bound the neighborhood, once defined by the swamps and creeks of the original Mexican land grant. The legacy of Potrero Viejo, or “old pasture,” and the farms of the 19th and 20th centuries have developed into today’s passion for the preservation of open space. From the 1860s legend of Widow O’Brien’s cow to the 1970s fight that saved the hill’s crest from development, Bernal residents have tirelessly guarded their environment. An unofficial coyote mascot reigns over one of San Francisco’s few remaining wild areas. - from Amzon

Number of Copies