The Presidio has filled in as a military reservation from its foundation in 1776 as Spain's northern-most station of frontier control in the New World. It was one of the longest-garrisoned posts in the nation and the most seasoned establishment in the American West. It assumed a key job in Spain's investigation and settlement of the borderlands, Mexico's consequent control of the locale from Texas to Alta California, and the United States' contribution in boondocks extension, yet in addition in every significant clash since the Mexican-American War of 1846-48. The Presidio is the place San Francisco started. Established at the Golden Gate in 1776, it filled in as a military fortress under the banners of Spain, Mexico and the United States before it turned into another sort of national park in 1994. History here isn't stuffy and stolid – it's a living, developing voyage that can be investigated through incalculable occasions and encounters. What's more, history is as yet being made at the Presidio through the recreation center's wonderful and progressing change.
In 1810, developing disappointment with the administration in the southern locales of New Spain turned vicious. The contention raised throughout the following decade before peaking in 1821, when unrest prompted arrangement of the Mexican Republic. As war pursued in the south, be that as it may, life was to a great extent unaltered at the Presidio. After the unrest, its fighters basically changed loyalty to Mexico, under whose banner they protected the Presidio for the following thirteen years. Notwithstanding its instructing country, the Presidio was as yet an ineffectively provided station a long way from the focal government in Mexico City.
During this time, supply ships from San Blas kept on being sporadic and the mission with their local labor were stressed to accommodate the populace. At the point when the local gatherings started to oppose the expanded requests, they were put under stricter military supervision. Besides, extra clans (counting Coast Miwok, Yokuts, Pomo, Sierra Miwok, Salinan) were assembled, blended, and combined into thick networks so as to serve the settlement. Under these conditions, new illnesses rapidly spread and local societies were additionally upset.
What minimal financial open door existed in Alta California depended on seal and ocean otter hides just as cows stows away and fat. To create remote exchange these merchandise, Mexico opened its ports in 1821. After a short time, the Russian American Company, Hudson's Bay Company, merchants from Boston, and others touched base for business. Also, the Mexican government isolated mission lands and appropriated them as land awards. Numerous previous Presidio officers and other Mexican residents built up cows and steed farms on this property; such natives by and large kept up a high caliber of life. On the other hand, the appropriation of mission grounds kept local individuals from coming back to their previous homes and many looked for some kind of employment as cattle rustlers and hirelings on the Mexican farms or in towns.