Sep
19
“Let us now thread our way among the numerous vehicles and foot- passengers that crowd the various thoroughfares of the city, to Third street, at which point we can take one of three routes to the Mission Dolores; namely: by the Old Mission road, Folsom street, or Brannan street, but either of the former is now by far the best. The Old Mission road, as its name would indicate, was the first made road to that point; although in 1849 and 1850, we had to thread our way among the low sand hills, and across little valleys, by a very circuitous and laborious route. In 1851, this road was graded and planked; but as the planks wore rapidly away, it was found to be very expensive to keep it in repair.— Within the past year, it has been macadamized nearly its entire length, and now is almost as good as the far famed Shell road, between New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain.”
A Jaunt of Recreation, From San Francisco, by the Mission Dolores…. - 1859
