February
15
/ 2017
There is a graveyard of ships under the city of San Francisco, California. These ships date to the middle of the 19th century, when the California Gold Rush occurred. Many ships that came to San Francisco with gold prospectors simply did not return to the ports from which they came, and were just left in the harbor. Eventually, the ships were built over, and, with the passage of time, mostly forgotten. The laying of new building foundations, or the digging of tunnels under the city, have, however, unearthed some of these ships, and brought them back to public attention. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"32712","attributes":{"alt":"op: The Charles Hare Lighter was discovered during a construction excavation at the corner of Folsom and Main streets in San
