Historians pretty much agree that the indigenous people has a settlement near hear and that they ate shellfish from the Bay, and created a mound of the used shells. This memorial notes that people lived here long before the Europeans.

This is an important historic site, commemorating the natives who were once numerous here taking advantage of the food that filled the Bay.

Did you know people lived in the San Francisco Bay Area thousands of years ago? in fact, as far back as 10,000 years ago people inhabited the San Francisco Bay Area. These people ate shellfish and they piled up their shell debris in huge mounds. Come here and learn about this fact.