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San Francisco was the county seat of San Francisco County, one of state's 18 original counties since California's statehood in 1850. Until 1856, the city limits extended west to Divisadero Street and Castro Street, and south to 20th Street.
San Francisco City and County Almshouse opens. [23] 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
San Francisco, [23] officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center within Northern California.With a population of 808,988 residents as of 2023, [14] San Francisco is the fourth-most populous city in the state of California and the 17th-most populous in the U.S.
M. H. de Young and the San Francisco Chronicle in 1885. The De Young museum is founded in San Francisco by San Francisco Chronicle publisher M. H. de Young (pictured) as an outgrowth of the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894; Landscape designer Makoto Hagiwara creates the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park
Location of San Francisco in California. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in San Francisco, California, United States.
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 Montgomery Block, also known as Monkey Block and Halleck's Folly, was a historic building active from 1853 to 1959, and was located in San Francisco, California. It was San Francisco's first fireproof and earthquake resistant building. [2] It came to be known as a Bohemian center, from the late 19th to the middle of the 20th-century. [2]
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.