San Francisco Fire of 1851

Map of the area burned in the fire of May 1851.
Daguerrotype view of San Francisco harbor in 1850 or 1851.

The San Francisco Fire of 1851 (May 3–4, 1851) was a catastrophic conflagration that destroyed as much as three-quarters of San Francisco, California.


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