Abigail Johnston: 2 books

In the early 1800s, it was called the Potrero Nuevo, or �new pasture.� Gold-rush squatterssoon put the squeeze on Mission Dolores�s grazing cattle, and when the fog lifted, Potrero Hill became the first industrial zone in San Francisco, with iron-smelting plants, butcheries, and shipbuilding dominating...

A neighborhood in the southeast corner of San Francisco, Potrero Hill enjoys some of the city�s finest weather and most spectacular views. Once pastureland and home to immigrants working in the shipbuilding industries, Potrero Hill was long ignored by guidebooks. Now �The Hill� is regenerating, and these pages highlight what is gone and what remains on these sunny slopes.