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1868 – San Francisco County Medical Society [8] and Women's Co-operative Printing Office established. 1869 California Theatre opens. San Francisco Yacht Club founded. [8] Grand hotel built. [1] Central Pacific Railroad line to Oakland completed. [2] 1870 Golden Gate Park [9] and San Francisco Microscopical Society [24] established. Population ...
Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846–1906. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (1980). Literary San Francisco: A Pictorial History from its Beginnings to the Present Day. Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-06-250325-1. OCLC 6683688. Maupin, Armistead (1978). Tales of the City. Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0-06-096404-7. OCLC 29847673.
The Sisters of Mercy open St. Mary's Hospital on Stockton Street in San Francisco, the first Catholic hospital west of the Rocky Mountains (hospital ruins in 1906 pictured) Minns Evening Normal School is founded in San Francisco by George W. Minns; George Kenny starts construction of an octagonal house at Russian Hill in San Francisco
San Francisco Bay Discovery Site; San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds; 1906 San Francisco earthquake; San Francisco housing shortage; San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad; San Francisco Public Utilities Commission; San Francisco tech bus protests; History of Santa Clara County, California; Sawtooth Building; Shipyard Railway; The Shops at Tanforan ...
In 1606, the newly founded city of Mannheim in Germany was the first Renaissance city laid out on the grid plan. Later came the New Town in Edinburgh and almost the entire city centre of Glasgow, and many planned communities and cities in Australia, Canada and the United States. Derry, constructed in 1613–1618, was the first planned city in ...
William Alexander Leidesdorff Jr. (1810 – May 18, 1848) was an Afro-Caribbean settler in California and one of the founders of the city that became San Francisco.A highly successful, enterprising businessman, he is thought to have been the first black millionaire in the United States.
The Fillmore district was created in the 1880s to provide new space for the city to grow in an effort to address overcrowding. [11] After the 1906 earthquake Fillmore Street, which had largely avoided heavy damage, temporarily became a major commercial center as the city's downtown rebuilt and began a period where the district where migrant groups from Jews to Japanese and then African ...
In the first millennium CE, an urban tradition developed in the Khmer region of Cambodia, where Angkor grew into one of the largest cities (in area) of the world. [41] The closest rival to Angkor, the Mayan city of Tikal in Guatemala, was between 100 and 150 square kilometres (39 and 58 sq mi) in total size. [42]