Rancho Rincon de las Salinas y Potrero Viejo

You are in the former territory of the Rancho Rincón de las Salinas y Potrero Viejo, a massive Mexican land grant that once covered roughly twenty percent of modern San Francisco. The name of this place translates to the corner of the salty marshes and the old pasture, descriptions that defined the landscape long before the city grid arrived. In eighteen thirty-nine, the Mexican government granted this land to José Cornelio Bernal, a soldier whose family had arrived in California with the Anza Expedition.