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11 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Amazon, between 1909 and 1920, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1900s; often about railroads and spur tracks, sewers.

11
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Amazon, between 1909 and 1920
Most of them in the 1900s

What keeps coming up

Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.4
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.4

Decade by decade

Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.

  1. 1920s1
    John and Pauline Tonningsen offer Amazon Reservoir land for $97,000 · 1920
  2. 1910s2
    Proposed, approved later: Another $300,000 set aside for Hetch Hetchy water work · 1919
  3. 1900s8
    Payment of $5,547.02 to Williams & Belser for the Amazon Street sewer approved · 1909

The most notable decisions

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Every decision the record places on this street is here. Every line is written from one item in the minutes of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the city council, and links to the page it was printed on at the Internet Archive or in the Clerk's own files. Many of the Board's decisions name no street at all, and only the ones that do can be placed here. How the record was read · The whole city