Yerba Buena

The city that grew there was called Yerba Buena, “the Good Herb,” but was renamed San Francisco in 1847, a hundred twenty years short of the Summer of Love.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

The city that grew there was called Yerba Buena, “the Good Herb,” but was renamed San Francisco in 1847, a hundred twenty years short of the Summer of Love.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

The name Yerba Buena, or good herb, was given on account of a little creeping vine with sweet-smelling leaves which covered the ground and is still found on the sand-dunes and Presidio hills.

Stories of California Ella M. Sexton

So there was formal announcement in the Star that, from that date forward, there would be abandonment of the name Yerba Buena, as local and appertaining only to the cove, and adoption of the name of San Francisco.

Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert James H. McClintock

There's a group there called Yerba Buena and they're a younger generation of Caribbean-based musicians.

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Our first day's ride was to a solitary house, called Yerba Buena, where there was pasture for our horses.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Our first day's ride was to a solitary house, called Yerba Buena, where there was pasture for our horses.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

San Francisco, then called Yerba Buena, had some four hundred people, most of them Kanakas natives of the Sandwich Islands.

Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000

San Francisco, then called Yerba Buena, had some four hundred people, most of them Kanakas natives of the Sandwich Islands.

Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000

The city was originally called Yerba Buena ( "good herbs"), and was settled by the Spaniards about 1777, but was changed to San Francisco in

Shepp's Photographs of the World Daniel B. Shepp