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Queen Wilhemina Garden at Golden Gate Park: History of windmill [Video]

Queen Wilhelmina Garden is an Instagram hot spot thanks to what lies below its sandy soil.

SAN FRANCISCO — Springtime in the Bay Area may be one of the best times to take a picture. It’s especially true if you visit the western edge of Golden Gate Park when the flowers are in bloom and the sun hits the Dutch windmill just right.

“The other day my daughter said ‘your garden is blowing up on Instagram,’” said horticulturalist Pat Quinn.

You can thank Quinn and his team for the beautiful backdrop at the Queen Wilhelmina Garden, but if you tried to take a picture here in the early 1900s, it would have looked very different. Historian Christopher Pollock says instead of seeing flowers and cypress trees, all you would have seen were sand dunes.

“Yes, and I don’t think up until 1962 this would have even had grass,” said Pollock. 

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