San Francisco Before The Great Earthquake of 1906
The 1849 Gold Rush and Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906 are the central events of San Francisco history. The Gold Rush created San Francisco. On April 18, 1906, quake and fire destroyed what gold had built. The old neighborhoods and cultures, the architecture and life cultivated from the middle of the 19th century vanished. Look into the living San Francisco on Market Street four days before disaster.