India Basin
Unfinished History
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 in the foreground]]
Photo: Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco, CA
India Basin Shipyards pictured in 1928
Photo: Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco, CA
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
The India Basin park seen in 2005, mudflats and native plants beginning to fill the surrounding waters.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
The southeastern shoreline is also home to a number of indigenous plants and a restored habitat.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
The PG&E Hunter's Point power plant, finally shut down after years of community pressure, on the shoreline in 2007 prior to its deconstruction.
Photo: Chris Carlsson
