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San Francisco began on June 29, 1776 with the founding of Mission San Francisco de Asis and the Presidio; the settlement was called Yerba Buena until it was renamed San Francisco in 1847, and the city was incorporated on April 15, 1850.

San Francisco is a consolidated city-county, one of the few in California where the city and county are the same government.

San Francisco was devastated by the great earthquake and fire of 1906 and famously rebuilt itself within a few years.

San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, completed in 1937, is one of the most recognized bridges in the world.

San Francisco's cable cars, running since 1873, are the only moving National Historic Landmark in the United States.

San Francisco had a population of 873,965 in the 2020 Census, with about 363,970 households, and only about 38.2% of its homes are owner-occupied.

Golden Gate Park covers 1,017 acres, opened in 1870, and is the third-most-visited urban park in the United States with around 24 million visitors a year; it holds the de Young Museum, the California Academy of Sciences, and the Japanese Tea Garden.

San Francisco's universities include the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), the University of San Francisco, and San Francisco State University.

Lowell High School, founded in 1856, is the oldest public high school west of the Mississippi River.