MISSION
CREEK
As the mouth
of the creek was west of Seventh Street, it may be regarded as an estuary
of Mission Bay. The channel, referred to in the franchise of Mission Bay
Bridge, entered Mission Bay at about where Channel Street now is and after
reaching Seventh Street turned due west and entered the mouth of Mission
Creek.
The creek,
in its windings, coursed westerly in what is now Division Street, turned
southwesterly, crossing Alabama and Harrison Streets, and then proceeded
due south between Harrison Street and Treat Avenue to Eighteenth Street.
The marshes extended easterly to the Potrero and westerly in some places
as far as Mission Street.
In 1854,
the legislature declared Mission Creek, from its mouth as far as the tide
flows, a navigable stream, but in 1874, all of that portion of the creek
between Ninth and Eighteenth Streets was vacated as a navigable stream.