India Basin

Unfinished History

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1920 view north from Hunter's Point Ridge over India Basin, Union Iron Works, Spreckel's sugar refinery, PG&E oil burning steam powered electrical generating facilities below Potrero Hill in the distance. Islais Creek waters below.

Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA

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Panorama of Butchertown and Islais Creek, c. 1890s.

Photo: George F. Lengeman collection

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View east along southern shore of India Basin, c. 1900. Wooden shipbuilding yards in foreground, and Hunters Point repair shipyard in distance.

Photo: George F. Lengeman collection

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Indian basin, piers along shores of Hunter's Point, some probably belonging to Chinese shrimp fishermen. April 16, 1918.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp36.01833

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India Basin Shipyards pictured in 1929

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp71.1164

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India Basin, 1950s.

Photo: OpenSFhistory.org wnp14.2139

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Boy with dog on the Hunters Point peninsula looking northward across India Basin, c. 1890s.

Photo: George F. Lengeman collection

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India Basin, pictured here in 1996, where a park was carved out of the industrial shoreline just north of Hunter's Point.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

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The India Basin park seen in 2005, mudflats and native plants beginning to fill the surrounding waters.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

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India Basin as seen from above on Hunters Point Hill, December 2012.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

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The southeastern shoreline is also home to a number of indigenous plants and a restored habitat, the PG&E plant before its demolition on shoreline.

Photo: Chris Carlsson




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