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JULY 8, 1905: Part of San Francisco Bay’s Angel Island was allocated as a US Immigration Detention Center.

JULY 8, 1905: Part of San Francisco Bay’s Angel Island was allocated as a US Immigration Detention Center.

Today, Angel Island State Park[1] is an uninhabited island in the San Francisco Bay. The only way to get to the island is by boat or…

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JULY 3, 1852: Congress authorized a second Mint to be established in San Francisco. It would operate out of the Old Mint Building until 1937.

JULY 3, 1852: Congress authorized a second Mint to be established in San Francisco. It would operate out of the Old Mint Building until 1937.

A second US Mint opened in San Francisco in 1854 to accommodate all the gold coming out of the Sierras. In its first year of…

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