They Build Ships There: Gold-Rush San Francisco’s Maritime Industries
Author(s): James Allan
Year: 2015
Summary
The unprecedented growth of San Francisco during the California Gold-rush was fueled in part by the ingenuity and ambitions of entrepreneurs who recognized and exploited economic opportunities unrelated to the activities in the gold fields. This paper will discuss several maritime enterprises whose remains have been discovered and documented during archaeological investigations William Self Associates has conducted along and within the former confines of early San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Cove.
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They Build Ships There: Gold-Rush San Francisco’s Maritime Industries. James Allan. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 396854)
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Keywords
General
Drydock
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Shipbuilding
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Storeships
Geographic Keywords
North America - California
Spatial Coverage
min long: -125.464; min lat: 32.101 ; max long: -114.214; max lat: 42.033 ;