Yerba Buena, was the original Spanish name of which Major American City?
Yerba Buena Island Yerba Buena Island Yerba Buena Island sits in the San Francisco Bay between San Francisco and Oakland, California. The Yerba Buena Tunnel runs through its center and connects the western and eastern spans of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. It has had several other names over the decades: Sea Bird Island, Wood Island, and Goat Island. The island is named after the town of Yerba Buena, which was named for the plant of the same name that was abundant in the area. The plant's English and Spanish common name, Yerba buena, is an alternate form of the Spanish "hierba buena"
Yerba buena Yerba buena Yerba buena or hierba buena is the Spanish name for a number of aromatic plants, most of which belong to the mint family. "Yerba buena" translates as "good herb". The specific plant species regarded as "yerba buena" varies from region to region, depending on what grows wild in the surrounding landscape, or which species is customarily grown in local gardens. Perhaps the most common variation of this plant is spearmint ("Mentha spicata"). The term has been (and is currently) used to cover a number of aromatic true mints and mint relatives of the genera "Clinopodium", "Satureja" or "Micromeria".