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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BSN_fort-mason_San-Francisco-CA.html
In response to the 1906 earthquake and fire, and recognizing the critical role of Fort Mason as a naval operations center, Congress appropriated funds to construct the tree piers in use today. Built on land reclaimed from a tidal cove, Fort Mason …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BSL_fort-mason-historic-district_San-Francisco-CA.html
First fortified by the Spanish in 1797, this bluff above the bay was re-armed by the U.S. Army in 1864. The post remained active through the Civil War, western Indians Wars, and conflicts abroad, beginning with the Spanish-American War in 1898. Du…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BSG_coit-tower_San-Francisco-CA.html
This 210 foot monument was built in 1933with monies bequeathed by Lillie Hitchcock Coit to beautify the city she loved. Frescoes were painted in the interior of the newly built structure by local artists funded through the United States Government…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BSF_telegraph-hill-historic-district_San-Francisco-CA.html
1254-62 Montgomery Streethas been place on the National Register of Historic Placesby the United State Department of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BSE_san-francisco-port-of-embarkation_San-Francisco-CA.html
Army's primary depot for Pacific operation
First garrisoned by U.S. Army troops during the Civil War, Fort Mason later played a key role in the emergence of the United States as an international power. Throughout the 1800s, the young country's …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BRY_fort-mason-historic-district_San-Francisco-CA.html
The Panama Pacific International Exposition, 635 acres of grand imagination, proclaimed to the world that San Francisco was fully recovered from the 1906 earthquake. Exhibition-filled palaces were built on filled marshlands between Fort Mason and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BRX_san-francisco-port-of-embarkation_San-Francisco-CA.html
First the Spanish and then the American military used this bluff to guard the harbor against hostile invasion. As the 19th century came to a close, Fort Mason's mission shifted from keeping enemy ships out of the bay to sending U.S. military ships…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BRV_telegraph-hill_San-Francisco-CA.html
During Gold Rush days a look-out stationed in a structure on this spot observed and signalled (sic) the arrival of incoming vessels. By adjusting movable arms high on a tall pole and by hoisting national colors, he identified the nature of the shi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BRT_coit-memorial-tower_San-Francisco-CA.html
This marker is composed of three panels; a center panel, a left panel and a right panel.
(Center Panel:)San Francisco's legendary Lillie Hitchcock Coit died in 1929, bequeathing one-third of her estate "for the purchase of adding beauty to the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BRL_russian-hill_San-Francisco-CA.html
Russian Hill was named for the graves of several sailors of the "Russian-American Company," who died here in the early 1840s. During the Gold Rush the 49ers found their graves, marked by wooden crosses, at the top of this hill and added graves of …