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SFStreets: History of San Francisco place names

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56 points jxmorris12 | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 16:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.249s | source
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davchana ◴[24 Jun 25 19:37 UTC] No.44370141[source]▶
I did not see my Powell St, parallel to Mason & Stockton St.
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1. madcaptenor ◴[24 Jun 25 20:46 UTC] No.44370856[source]▶
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell_Street has: "The street was named for Dr. William J. Powell, surgeon of the U.S. sloop of war Warren, which was active during the conquest of California.[1]".

That comes from this document on the website of the Museum of the City of San Francisco: https://sfmuseum.org/street/stnames5.html

Seems like that would be a good additional source to add to the map.