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Days before America's independence, San Francisco turns 250

Days before America's independence, San Francisco turns 250
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On June 27, 1776, seven days before the Declaration of Independence was signed in the East, a group of weary travelers arrived in what would become San Francisco and began to scratch their lives into the verdant valley that would become the Mission District — and the sand dunes and serpentine roc...

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