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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CDO_buried-ships_San-Francisco-CA.html
You are standing near the end of Cowell's Wharf, dating back to early 1850s. As the map indicates a number of Gold Rush store-ships were moored as floating warehouses as far inland as Battery and Sansome Streets. With buildings in short supply, th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CDN_belt-line-railroad_San-Francisco-CA.html
Construction began in 1889 for San Francisco's harbor Belt Line Railroad, a terminal switching railroad with locomotives dedicated to moving boxcars and flat cars directly alongside cargo vessels. Opening in 1896 to serve the warehouse and shippin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CDM_white-angel_San-Francisco-CA.html
It was westering and westering. And then the old men came to edge of the continent and saw they could go no further, they broke down and wept. Down and out on the waterfront in Frisco. The end of the line. Out of work. Out of food. And out of hope…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CDI_the-general-harrison_San-Francisco-CA.html
The remains of the gold rush supply ship, the General Harrison, lie beneath this building. The sidewalk treatment reminds us that Clay Street was once a wharf at the edge of San Francisco Bay with tidal mud flats to the north, and in 1850 ships li…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CDF_the-montgomery-block_San-Francisco-CA.html
This, San Francisco's first fireproof building erected in 1853 by Henry Wager Helleck, was the headquarters for many outstanding lawyers, financiers, writers, actors and artists. James King of William, editor of the Bulletin, died here after being…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CDE_the-birthplace-of-a-great-city_San-Francisco-CA.html
Here, June 25, 1835, William A. Richardson, founder of Yerba Buena, (later San Francisco) erected its first habitation, a tent dwelling, replacing it, in October 1835, by the first wooden house, and on this ground, in 1836, he erected the large ad…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CDD_home-of-benjamen-chinn_San-Francisco-CA.html
Photographer Benjamen Chinn was born, raised and spent virtually his entire live in this house. Chinn is best known for his iconic photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown and Paris, France.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CDC_william-alexander-leidesdorff_San-Francisco-CA.html
Builder · Entrepreneur · Visionary Pioneer San Franciscan · African-American
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CDB_bank-of-california_San-Francisco-CA.html
The Bank of California, a founding financier of the West, was established by William Chapman Ralston on July 5, 1864, the company quickly outgrew its quarters at this location and engaged architects Walter Danforth Bliss and William Baker Faville …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BSO_marina-air-field_San-Francisco-CA.html
There are two markers mounted on opposite sides of the flagpole base in the Marina Green
This plaque marks the site of the Marina Air FieldThe first terminus of the United States Post Office Dept. Trans-ContinentalAir Mail ServiceThe first sch…