The Golden Gate Bridge’s name isn’t from the Gold Rush. It actually comes from the Golden Gate Strait. Explorer John C. Frémont named it in the mid-1800s. The term “Golden Gate” means a ...

Irving Morrow romanticized the Golden Gate long before he became a consulting architect on the bridge that would span it. The narrow strait, he wrote in 1919, "is caressed by breezes from the blue ...