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A 1925 adjoining addition to the warehouse is at 310 5th Avenue. 69: Brunswig Drug Company: 1900: 383 5th Avenue ... San Diego Lumber Co. Building: 1926: 170 6th Avenue
Jean Jacques Vioget (1794–1855), originally from Switzerland, was a surveyor and sea captain, who came to California in 1837.He made the first survey and map of Yerba Buena (which later was re-named San Francisco) in 1839.
The area included Yerba Buena Cove, a favored anchorage, and the name was later extended to the Isla de la Yerba Buena (Yerba Buena Island), which faced the cove. In 1835, the civilian pueblo of Yerba Buena was founded on the shores of the cove, which would later grow into the American city of San Francisco.
The Hudson Bay Company departed from their trading post they had set up in Yerba Buena (San Francisco) in 1845 because of the declining fur trade and the death of their agent there. The United States Exploring Expedition (1838–1842) was an exploring and surveying expedition of the Pacific Ocean ("the Southern Seas") conducted by the United ...
Gustave Touchard (1818–1888) bought part of Rancho Yerba Buena from Chaboya. Touchard was a San Francisco furniture dealer, and president of the Union Insurance Company from 1866 to 1888. [ 7 ] During a lengthy court proceeding regarding a boundary dispute, squatters settled on portions of the property.
1858 Map: San Francisco Mission District – Las Camaritas Land Grant. Rancho Las Camaritas was an Alta California land grant, a square of 300 Mexican varas on each side; varas being one pace, in this case 2.75 feet (16.625 acres or 6.73 hectares) to José de Jesús Noé on January 21, 1840, by Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado.
The Buel–Town Building is an historic structure located at 278 5th Avenue in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter, in the U.S. state of California. It was built in 1898. The Buel–Town Building was the first Gaslamp Quarter building to be rehabilitated, in 1973, kicking off the rejuvenation of this neighborhood near San Diego's downtown; from then it housed the Old Spaghetti Factory restaurant.
The Granger Building is a historic structure located at 964 5th Avenue at Broadway in the Gaslamp Quarter, San Diego, in the U.S. state of California. It was built in 1904. It was built in 1904. [ 1 ]