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Strawberry Hill rises near the center of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park on an island in the man-made Blue Heron Lake, linked to the park by two bridges and threaded with trails through dense plantings to a summit clearing with broad city views. Its most famous feature is Huntington Falls, a 110-foot artificial waterfall funded by Collis Potter Huntington and the first of its kind in the park. Nearby stands the Golden Gate Pavilion, a Chinese peace pagoda given by Taipei in 1976. The hilltop also preserves the ruined foundations of the Sweeny Observatory, built in 1891 and destroyed in the 1906 earthquake.
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