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Encyclopedia > Yerba Buena Island
Aerial photo of Treasure Island (top) and Yerba Buena Island (bottom).
Aerial photo of Treasure Island (top) and Yerba Buena Island (bottom).

Yerba Buena Island sits in the San Francisco Bay between San Francisco and Oakland, California. The Yerba Buena Tunnel runs through its center and connects the western and eastern spans of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. It has had several other names over the decades: Sea Bird Island, Wood Island, and Goat Island. Yerba Buena translates from the Spanish language to Peppermint and literally means The Good Herb and was sometimes spelled Hierba Buena, the Spanish word for herb may be spelled Yerba or Hierba and is pronounced identically. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (948x1280, 216 KB) Treasure Island and Yerba Buena island, and the San Francisco Bay Bridge, in San Francisco Bay, California. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (948x1280, 216 KB) Treasure Island and Yerba Buena island, and the San Francisco Bay Bridge, in San Francisco Bay, California. ... An aerial view of Treasure Island in the foreground, with its link to Yerba Buena Island in the background. ... San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and the Golden Gate San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean. ... Nickname: Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates: , Country United States of America State California City-County San Francisco Founded 1776 Government  - Mayor Gavin Newsom Area  - City  47 sq mi (122 km²)  - Land  46. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge ( ; known locally as the Bay Bridge) is a toll bridge which spans San Francisco Bay and links the California cities of Oakland and San Francisco in the United States, as part of Interstate 80. ... This article is about the international language known as Spanish. ... Binomial name Mentha × piperita L. Peppermint (Mentha × piperita) is a (usually) sterile hybrid mint, a cross between watermint (Mentha aquatica) and spearmint (Mentha spicata). ...


The island is currently part of District 6 of the City and County of San Francisco. According to the United States Census Bureau, Yerba Buena Island and Treasure Island together have a land area of 2.334 km² (0.901 sq mi) with a total population of 1,453 as of the 2000 census. This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... The United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census as defined in Title ) is a part of the United States Department of Commerce. ... An aerial view of Treasure Island in the foreground, with its link to Yerba Buena Island in the background. ... 2000 US Census logo The Twenty-Second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13. ...

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History

The first California legislature on February 18, 1850, passed an act establishing the boundaries of San Francisco County and named the island Yerba Buena, after the former name of the city of San Francisco. Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the game, see: 1850 (board game) 1850 (MDCCCL) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday [1] of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Nickname: Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates: , Country United States of America State California City-County San Francisco Founded 1776 Government  - Mayor Gavin Newsom Area  - City  47 sq mi (122 km²)  - Land  46. ... Binomial name Clinopodium douglasii (Benth. ...


Officially, the island was Yerba Buena until 1895, when on a decision by the U.S. Geographic Board, it was changed to "Goat Island." It was changed back to "Yerba Buena" on June 3, 1931. "Yerba Buena" is literally "Good Herb" in Spanish (it is the Spanish word for "peppermint".) Year 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... is the 154th day of the year (155th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...


The idea of a military post on Yerba Buena Island was originated during the Civil War in fear of an invading Confederate ship slipping past Fort Point and Alcatraz during a foggy San Francisco night. It was not until the 1870s that Camp Yerba Buena Island was completed, including construction of a fog signal and octagonal lighthouse (1875) that remain today. Just before the turn of the 20th century, the first U.S. Naval Training Station on the Pacific Coast was established on the north east side of the island. Quarters One, also known as the Nimitz House, was built c. 1900 as the Commandant's residence. Its Classic Revival style, fashionable for private residences in the Bay Area at that time, was unusual for naval base housing. The training station closed in 1916. Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total... Fort Point is located at the southern side of the Straits of the Golden Gate at the entrance to San Francisco Bay. ... Alcatraz Island (sometimes informally referred to as simply Alcatraz or by its pop-culture name, The Rock) is a small island located in the middle of San Francisco Bay in California, United States. ... A HDR image of a traditional lighthouse For other uses, see Lighthouse (disambiguation). ... The neoclassical movement that produced Neoclassical architecture began in the mid-18th century, both as a reaction against the Rococo style of anti-tectonic naturalistic ornament, and an outgrowth of some classicizing features of Late Baroque. ...


During World War II, Yerba Buena Island fell under the jurisdiction of Treasure Island Naval Station, headquarters of the 12th Naval District. Built on the shoals of Yerba Buena Island, the 403-acre (163 ha) Treasure Island was a Works Progress Administration project in the 1930s. After hosting the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, the United States Navy deemed Treasure Island an ideal location for transporting people and machines to the Pacific theater, and on April 1, 1941, established Treasure Island Naval Station which also included a portion of Yerba Buena Island. Quarters One became the residence of the Commander of the Naval Base. Several other buildings used by the Naval Station during World War II also remain on the island, including the senior officers' quarters and Buildings 83, 205 and 230. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... The naval district is a military and administrative command ashore, established for the purpose of decentralizing the U.S. Navy Departments functions with respect to the control of the coastwise sea communications and the shore activities outside the department proper, and for the further purpose of centralizing under one... An aerial view of Treasure Island in the foreground, with its link to Yerba Buena Island in the background. ... WPA Graphic The Works Progress Administration (later Work Projects Administration, abbreviated WPA), was created on May 6, 1935 by Presidential order (Congress funded it annually but did not set it up). ... USN redirects here. ... Combatants China Allies (entered 1941):  United States  United Kingdom  Australia Free France  Netherlands  New Zealand  Canada  Soviet Union (1945) Japan  Germany (from 1941)  Manchukuo Thailand (from 1942) Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Franklin D. Roosevelt Winston Churchill John Curtin Charles de Gaulle Hirohito Hideki Tojo Kuniaki Koiso Kantaro Suzuki Campaigns and...


In 1996, the naval base and the Presidio of San Francisco were decommissioned, and opened to public control, under stipulations. Quarters One is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Parade Grounds at the Presidio of San Francisco. ... A typical plaque showing entry on the National Register of Historic Places. ...


Miscellaneous

Located west of the island is Blossom Rock, a treacherous submerged stone which caused a number of shipwrecks, until ships learned to use some nearby redwood trees as a navigational aid to avoid it. The site of these trees (now located in Redwood Regional Park) is a California Historical Landmark. Redwood Regional Park is a park of the East Bay Regional Parks District (EBRPD) in the San Francisco Bay Area. ... California Historical Landmarks (CHLs) are buildings, structures, sites, or places in the state of California that have been determined to have statewide historical significance by meeting at least one of the criteria listed below: approved for designation by the County Board of Supervisors or the City/Town Council in whose...


In his book Two Years Before the Mast, published in 1840, Richard Henry Dana mentioned the island and called it "Wood Island." Two Years Before the Mast a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr. ... 1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Richard Henry Dana Jr. ...


See also

Yerba Buenas as seen in the middle of the bay from a plane

Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2304x1728, 929 KB) Summary i allow wikipedia to use this pic that i took Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2304x1728, 929 KB) Summary i allow wikipedia to use this pic that i took Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation... There are several islands in San Francisco Bay. ... William Bernard was a 19th-century sailor, miner and resident of San Francisco, better known as the notorious Barnacle Bill of popular yore -- a rough-and-tumble, hard-drinking dock-swaggerer whose exploits are chronicled in the ribald drinking song Barnacle Bill the Sailor. ...

References

The National Park Service (NPS) is the United States government agency that deals with U.S. National Parks and U.S. National Monuments. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... is the 81st day of the year (82nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

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Yerba Buena Island - Definition, explanation (0 words)
As the natural base for the artificial Treasure Island, Yerba Buena and Treasure Islands formed the Treasure Island Naval Base, beginning during World War II until 1996, when it and the Presidio of San Francisco were decommissioned, and opened to public control, under stipulations.
Officially, the island was Yerba Buena until 1895, when on a decision by the U.S. Geographic Board, it was changed to "Goat Island." It was changed back to "Yerba Buena" on June 3, 1931.
The island is currently part of District 6 of the City and County of San Francisco.
"Hunting for Treasure on Yerba Buena Island," © 2006 by Geoffrey Coffey (0 words)
And the steep slopes of Yerba Buena Island, though radically altered by invasive weeds and the hand of man, still harbor remnants of the original native flora, a population from which the landscape planners may wish to draw their inspiration.
The island was named Yerba Buena (Spanish for "good herb") after the creeping wild mint, Satureja douglasii, that once covered these shores.
Yerba buena looks delightful in the garden when trailing over a stone retaining wall or other hardscaping, and can soften the spaces between paving stones or beside paths.
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