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The South San Francisco Hillside Sign is a historic sign on a hillside overlooking the city of South San Francisco in San Mateo County, California. It was created in the 1920s and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. [2] The sign is the main feature of Sign Hill Park, a city park which provides 30 acres (12 ha) of ...
San Francisco City Hall. San Francisco City Hall is the seat of government for the City and County of San Francisco, California.Re-opened in 1915 in its open space area in the city's Civic Center, it is a Beaux-Arts monument to the City Beautiful movement that epitomized the high-minded American Renaissance of the 1880s to 1917.
Huntington Ingalls Industries. Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. ( HII) is the largest military shipbuilding company in the United States as well as a provider of professional services to partners in government and industry. HII, ranked No. 375 on the Fortune 500, was formed on 31 March 2011, as a divestiture from Northrop Grumman. [5] [6]
Collis Potter Huntington (October 22, 1821 – August 13, 1900) was an American industrialist and railway magnate. He was one of the Big Four of western railroading (along with Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker) who invested in Theodore Judah's idea to build the Central Pacific Railroad as part of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad.
1:01 PM PDT • March 11, 2019. Comment. One of the last top-tier venture firms to resist coming to San Francisco has apparently decided that it’s time to make the move. According to a source ...
Origins of SF’s cautious approach to growth are rooted in the freeway revolt and urban renewal struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. San Francisco’s orientation towards growth control has 50 years ...
Designated NHLD. February 27, 1987 [6] The Civic Center in San Francisco, California, is an area located a few blocks north of the intersection of Market Street and Van Ness Avenue that contains many of the city's largest government and cultural institutions. It has two large plazas ( Civic Center Plaza and United Nations Plaza) and a number of ...
San Francisco secured rights in 1913 to about an eighth of the Tuolumne, which arises at about 13,000 feet in Yosemite National Park. Most of the water diversion is at Hetch Hetchy Reservoir ...