China Beach, San Francisco
Small cove beneath sea cliffs, once a Chinese fishing camp renamed twice across a century of change.
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This guide to China Beach in San Francisco opens with a contradiction: a bronze plaque thanking the Chinese fishermen who once camped on this cove, beside decades in which the beach carried the name of a mayor who spent his career trying to keep those same immigrants out of California. Chinese fishing crews dominated the bay's catch by the 1880s before a wave of laws and hostility pushed them out of the trade through the 1890s. Look toward the trailhead for the monument that names the men who worked these waters first.
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