Human Settlement
Today, the San Francisco Bay estuary is the center of a metropolis, the home of seven million people.
Indigenous Settlement
![505 1977-11-01 [JP] Mariotti on Indigenous.pdf](http://herculeshistory.org/files/square_thumbnails/d5a907a0d6aa0c1bd0b5e7e1b5f4fac6.jpg "505 1977-11-01 [JP] Mariotti on Indigenous.pdf")
Two hundred fifty years ago, the estuary was the center of an almost unimaginably different landscape, the home of about...
European Settlement
First Contact Spain Mexico Californio Gold Rush Americans Families of Pinole Civil War Period