Yerba Buena

[Subdeacon Joe]

Joe Lovell

 

 

 

This Week In California History

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This Week In California History

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June 25, 1835

Captain William Richardson built his home in Yerba Buena, then a Mexican village, now San Francisco. The first Anglo home, where he lived with his wife, Maria Antonia Martinez, and their three children was essentially a tent covered by an old sail. The image below shows San Francisco 13 years later. For more see ThisWeekinCaliforniaHistory.com

[Will Kane]

And here I thought it was about the medicinal plant my Mom would use to make a tea to treat stomach aches and other gastrointestinal ailments.