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Our History
Where sailing ships
once anchored in Yerba Buena Cove, today rises Golden Gateway.

For it was here, in this very area, that crews mad with the lust for "Gold!" abandoned most of the ships entering San Francisco harbor as soon as the anchors were dropped.

The abandoned vessels were either beached or allowed to remain indefinitely at anchor. By 1850, along the shoreline a network of planks and crosswalks linked shambling buildings, wharfs and ghost ships in a rakish "city" housing 1,000 souls.

In two local San Francisco newspapers, the Alta California and San Francisco Evening Picayune, dated August, 1850, advertisements appeared offering lots and wharf space for sale or rent. Interestingly, many of these ads stated that construction of certain buildings and wharfs were financed by Mr. B.R. Buckelew and Mr. W.H. Davis. A map, published in 1851, shows one of the buildings saved in the "Great Fire" of May 5, 1851, as being owned by Macondray & Co.

During the construction of the Golden Gateway foundation over 17 boxes of bottles and other artifacts were found by workmen. Many of these rare objects, from ships lost over 100 years ago, are part of the Golden Gateway art collection.


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