Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/51


 * ... that Serranus Clinton Hastings served as chief justice of both the Iowa and California Supreme Courts?
 * ... that The Geysers, a geothermal power field located north of San Francisco, California, (power plant pictured) is the largest geothermal development in the world?
 * ... that in 1927, Oregon congressman Maurice E. Crumpacker drowned in San Francisco Bay after claiming he had been poisoned?
 * ... that Californian politician Lou Papan received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 1996?

May/June 2007