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Remnants of the North Bay's agricultural history still linger along the shoreline.
(Francis Parchaso)
the creation and launching of a wooden paddlewheel steamer called the
U.S.S. Saginaw
in 1859.
Not content with shorelines and hinterlands, residents began to fill the
open water of the bay itself, creating new lands of Alameda in 1902, rid-
ding San Francisco of earthquake rubble by dumping it in Aquatic Cove in
1906, and claiming open waters once under today's Marina District to host
the 1915 Panama Pacific exhibition.
While new cities and military communities expanded around and into
Roberts Landing in San Lorenzo, one of numerous landings along the bayshore
where small vessels fetched and delivered produce, fish, and other goods via local
waterways in the late 1800s. (David Rumsey Historical Map Collection)
