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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 ...
Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968–1978. DeLeon, Richard E. (1992). Left Coast City: Progressive Politics in San Francisco, 1975–1991. Ethington, Philip J. (2001). The Public City: The Political Construction of Urban Life in San Francisco, 1850–1900. Hartman, Chester (2002). City for Sale: The Transformation of San ...
The San Francisco Bay Area is part of the new state of California, which is admitted into the United States of America; The City and County of San Francisco is incorporated John W. Geary (pictured) becomes the first mayor of San Francisco; Contra Costa County is incorporated; Marin County is incorporated; Napa County is incorporated
Alcaldes of San Francisco [4] [5] Portrait Alcalde Term Notes Washington Allon Bartlett: August 22, 1846: February 22, 1847 Edwin Bryant: February 22, 1847: June 1847 George Hyde [9] June 1847: April 1848 John Townsend: April 1848: September 1848 Thaddeus M. Leavenworth: October 1848: August 1849 John White Geary: August 1849: March 1, 1850
The San Francisco Planning Department officially identifies 36 neighborhoods. Within these 36 official neighborhoods are a large number of minor districts, some of which are historical, and some of which are overlapping. Some of San Francisco's neighborhoods are also officially designated as "cultural districts".
The Bay Area has been inhabited since antiquity, first by the Ohlone and Miwok peoples, followed by the Spanish, who first arrived in 1769 and established the area's first mission, Mission San Francisco de Asís, in 1776. [2] [3] [4] After being ceded to the United States in 1848, the Bay Area grew immensely due to the California Gold Rush ...
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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 ...