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Originally Posted by simms3_redux
Wow San Francisco was already a very large city by 1855...had no idea!
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Yeah it was pretty sizable, with around 40,000 residents in 1855. It's hard to believe that just 10 years earlier, the city had fewer than 1,000 residents (and jumped from 1,000 to 25,000 in the single year from 1848 to 1849).