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Mission Creek, looking east.
Mission Creek (from Spanish: misión) is a river in San Francisco, California that has been largely culverted. The only remaining portion above ground is in the Mission Creek Channel that drains into China Basin.[1]
Once a navigable body of water, Mission Creek flowed from the San Francisco Mission Dolores to the bay. The two Ramaytush Indian villages of Chutchui and Sitlintac were located on Mission Creek. Declared by the state legislature in 1854 to be a navigable stream, it retains the designation today even though most of it was vacated for use boats by 1874, and later filled in.[2] Earthquake liquefaction has been known to occur along buried portions of the creek.[3][4]
The Mission Creek Channel was used to off load bananas in the 1920s through the 1950s. The China Basin Building on Mission Creek was originally built as a banana processing plant in the 1920s, and was known as the Del Monte Building in the 1970s, when it was used as a food distribution site by the Hearst family in response to the demands of the SLA. [5]
Today, AT&T Park, home to the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball, is located at the mouth of the Creek Channel. A community of house boats has existed in the creek channel since 1960, when the state of California moved the houseboat community at Islais Creek to make way for merchant ship trading.[6]
References
- ^ Museum of California, Watershed map, access date December 31, 2008
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- ^ [2]
- ^ [3]
- ^ http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=The_Legacy_of_the_SLA
- ^ Still Afloat SF Gate.com
Olmsted, Nancy Vanished waters: A history of San Francisco's Mission Bay
External links
Categories:- California geography stubs
- Rivers of San Francisco County, California
- Culverts
- Mission District, San Francisco, California
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