Potrero Point is a landmass extending into the San Francisco Bay, distinguished today by its flat, expansive industrial waterfront and a remaining collection of nineteenth-century brick machine shops and steel-framed buildings. Originally a rocky, serpentine promontory known as Point San Quentin, the landscape was blasted and leveled beginning in the eighteen-sixties to provide fill for nearby Mission Bay. This process transformed a rugged pasture once used by Spanish missionaries and the rancher Francisco de Haro into the primary engine of West Coast heavy industry.
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