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