San Francisco's Potrero Hill
Linenthal, Peter / Johnston, Abigail / The Potrero Hill Archives Project![San Francisco's Potrero Hill](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/202/20235880/CHSBZCOP0320235880.jpg)
In the early 1800s, it was called the Potrero Nuevo, or "new pasture." Gold-rush squatters soon put the squeeze on Mission Dolores's grazing cattle, and when the fog lifted, Potrero Hill became the first industrial zone in San Francisco, with iron-smelting plants, butcheries, and shipbuilding dominating the waterfront during the late 19th century. The Hill has been home to immigrants from Scotland, Ireland, China, Russia, Mexico, and from ever...