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#Onthisday in 1927 the City and County of San Francisco signed a lease with the Mills Estate for 150 acres to use as an airport. The lease, signed by Ogden L. Mills, grandson of the Gold Rush banker Darius Ogden Mills, allocated 150 acres of pastureland located twelve miles south of San Francisco's Civic Center. The terms were for three years at the rate of $1,500 per year for this "temporary and experimental" municipal airport. This original tract of land remains part of SFO today. Image: Mills Field Municipal Airport of San Francisco, aerial, 1928. SFO Museum Collection. 2011.032.0078 This image was posted on March 15, 2018.