The city s 790,000-plus residents include ethnicities from every corner of the globe. Enclaves of African-American, Chinese, El Salvadoran, Brazilian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Mexican, M iddle Eastern, R ussian, and Vietnamese r esidents, among others, make it possible for locals and visitors alike to experience a world of cultur es within 47 squar e miles. San Francisco s cosmopolitan roots can be traced to the gold rush. Before then the sleepy to wn of Yerba B uena settled b y the S panish in 1776, claimed b y M exico in 1822, and declared part of the U.S. (and r enamed chelsea market tour San Francisco) in 1848 was little more than a military chelsea market tour outpost, a port, and some ranchland. That all changed when newspaper publisher Sam Brannan took it upon himself in 1849 to publicize the discovery of gold in the American River, 130 miles east.
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