Editing Golden Gate (section)

== Gallery ==
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File:Golden Gate from Lands End, San Francisco c1895.jpg|The Golden Gate as seen from off "Land's End" in Lincoln Park on the Northwest tip of the San Francisco Peninsula {{circa}}&nbsp;1895
File:San Francisco Golden Gate.jpg|San Francisco Bay and Golden Gate
File:Passing Through the Golden Gate, by William A. Coulter.jpg|Passing Through the Golden Gate, by William A.&nbsp;Coulter
File:Golden Gate, San Francisco, Calif (NYPL b12647398-66475).tiff|Postcard of the Golden Gate, {{circa}}&nbsp;1898–1904
</gallery>

=== 1920s ===
[[File:Golden Gate22-20c.jpg|thumb|150px|The Golden Gate, featured on a [[postage stamp]] [[Postage stamps and postal history of the United States#The 1920s and 1930s|issued in 1923]]]]

The U.S. Post Office issued a [[postage stamp]] on May 1, 1923, celebrating ''The Golden Gate'', portraying the schooner [[USS W. F. Babcock (ID-1239)|USS ''Babcock'']] passing through an empty strait. The ''Babcock'' served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919, with San Francisco as its port of call.<ref name="USPS">{{cite web |last1=Juell |first1=Rod |title=Arago: 20-cent Golden Gate |url=https://arago.si.edu/category_2033936.html |website=arago.si.edu |publisher=Smithsonian Postal Museum |access-date=29 November 2017}}</ref>

=== Golden Gate Bridge ===
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[[File:Golden Gate 1.jpg|thumb|The [[Golden Gate Bridge]], as seen from the [[Marin Headlands]] looking south]]

In 1933 construction began on the [[Golden Gate Bridge]], a [[suspension bridge]] connecting the city of [[San Francisco]] on the northern tip of the [[San Francisco Peninsula]] to [[Marin County, California|Marin County]]. Today it is part of both [[US Highway 101]] and [[California State Route 1|California Route&nbsp;1]]. 

The Bridge was the [[List of longest suspension bridge spans|longest suspension bridge span]] in the world when completed in 1937 and is an internationally recognized symbol of San Francisco and the state of [[California]]. Since its completion the span has been surpassed by eighteen other bridges and remains second longest in the United States, after the [[Verrazano-Narrows Bridge]] in [[New York City]]. In 2007, it was ranked fifth on the ''[[List of America's Favorite Architecture according to the AIA|List of America's Favorite Architecture]]'' by the [[American Institute of Architects]].