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On 13 November 1542, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo sights a peninsula from his ship and names it "Cabo de Pinos", while missing the entrance to San Francisco Bay; Drake's landing. Francis Drake lands at what is now known as Drakes Bay in 1579 (pictured), and claims the land for England, as New Albion
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 Prayer Book Cross, sometimes called the Sir Francis Drake Cross, is a large stone Celtic cross sculpture in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California. [1] Dedicated in 1894, it commemorates Francis Drake’s landing in New Albion at nearby Drakes Bay and the first use of the Book of Common Prayer in what would become the United States. [2]
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
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October 10, 1975 (Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, 2905 Hyde Street: Fisherman's Wharf: Flat-bottomed scow schooner built in 1891 to haul goods on and around San Francisco Bay and river delta areas.
California Street (San Francisco) Calle 24 Latino Cultural District; Camp Alert (California) Carville, San Francisco; SS Charles L. Wheeler Jr. Chinese Americans in San Francisco; Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association; Chung Fook v. White; Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples; The Chutes of San Francisco; City of Paris Dry Goods Co.