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  2. Golden Gate Bridge - Wikipedia

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    The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the one-mile-wide (1.6 km) strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean in California, United States. The structure links San Francisco —the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula —to Marin County , carrying both U.S. Route 101 and California State ...

  3. Fort Point National Historic Site - Wikipedia

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    It is also the geographic name of the promontory upon which the fort and the southern approach of the Golden Gate Bridge were constructed. [3] The fort was completed just before the American Civil War by the United States Army, to defend San Francisco Bay against hostile warships.

  4. List of San Francisco placename etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Golden Gate: Golden Gate in Constantinople: John C. Fremont named the Golden Gate after one of the Walls of Constantinople. The Golden Gate Bridge and Golden Gate Ave. take their names from the Golden Gate. [5] Gough Street: Charles H. Gough: Gough, a milkman, was one of three aldermen appointed in 1855 to lay out and name the streets of the ...

  5. Golden Gate - Wikipedia

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    The Golden Gate is a strait on the west coast of North America that connects San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean. [2] It is defined by the headlands of the San Francisco Peninsula and the Marin Peninsula, and, since 1937, has been spanned by the Golden Gate Bridge.

  6. Irving Morrow - Wikipedia

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    Morrow romanticized the bridge long before he was hired to work on it, writing in 1919 that "The narrow strait is caressed by breezes from the blue bay throughout the long golden afternoon, but perhaps it is loveliest at the cool end of the day when, for a few breathless moments, faint afterglows transfigure the gray line of hills."

  7. Barrett and Hilp - Wikipedia

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    The Golden Gate Bridge, which Barrett and Hilp were instrumental in building. Barrett and Hilp was a construction company and general contractor founded in San Francisco by Harold Hilp Sr. and brothers J. Frank and Larry Barrett in 1912. The company played a large part in the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge. [1] [2] [3]

  8. Charles Alton Ellis - Wikipedia

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    Charles Alton Ellis (1876 – 1949) was a professor, structural engineer and mathematician who was chiefly responsible for the structural design of the Golden Gate Bridge. [1] Because of a dispute with Joseph Strauss, he was not recognized for his work when the bridge opened in 1937. His contributions were ultimately recognized at the bridge in ...

  9. John A. Roebling - Wikipedia

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    Roebling's company John A Roebling's Sons Co. is credited with being the cable contractor for the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, constructed from 1933 to 1937. The Golden Gate Bridge was and still is a technical engineering marvel that Roebling, posthumously, has his footprint on.