Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. San Francisco's Dumpville was a permanent village along the shores of Mission Bay that existed from the 1860s until 1895. Dumpville was an early refuse site on Southern Pacific Railroad land, a loosely structured community of mostly men, not unlike dump sites across the planet. It was on the shore of Mission Creek, the waters called "poverty lake." Dumpville was a location where poor people lived in make-shift housing and sifted through the trash for items that had some value, cans, cloth, metal, bottles and utensils.