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In 1974, the city of San Francisco designated eucalyptus trees that Pleasant had planted outside her mansion at the southwest corner of Octavia and Bush streets in San Francisco as a Structure of Merit. [44] The trees and associated plaque are now known as Mary Ellen Pleasant Memorial Park, which is the smallest park in San Francisco. [45]
11. Mary Ellen Pleasant Memorial Park, Lower Pac Heights. ... Mary Ellen Pleasant moved to San Francisco to work as a cook for wealthy men during the Gold Rush. She went on to become the first ...
Teresa Percy flees her abusive husband, a gambling addict, from New York City to San Francisco in the mid-1800s. Her new friend Lizzie, a prostitute, introduces her to Ms. Mary Ellen "Mammy" Pleasant, a mysterious local socialite infamous for having "rescued" and gainfully employed numerous black people who were former slaves and part of southern America's African-American diaspora.
Woodworth and his brother were abolitionists, his brother having served in the Atlantic to end the slave trade. A fugitive slave named Mary Ellen Pleasant had come to San Francisco in 1852 aboard the steamer Oregon. Initially she took employment working as a cook and housekeeper at the house belonging to the Case, Heiser & Company, Woodworth's ...
Their son George Washington Dennis Jr. was a lawyer and politician, who served as a delegate to the Democratic convention; their son Edward Dennis was the first Black police officer in San Francisco, within the San Francisco Police Department. [4] [8] Dennis was friends with Mary Ellen Pleasant. [10]
A New Mexico hotel commissioned 695 lamp bases. The City of San Francisco commissioned a ceramic plaque honoring Mary Ellen Pleasant who ran the San Francisco terminus of The Underground Railway and was also a madam. Lark Creek Inn in Larkspur, California commissioned hundreds of serving platters and plates.
Home of Mary Ellen Pleasant and Thomas Bell's family, 1861 Octavia, San Francisco, California. Thomas and Teresa were said to have married a few months after they met in 1879. [3] [11] They lived at a 30-room mansion in San Francisco that was built and furnished by Pleasant by 1880.
The Charlotte Brown case paved the way for other cases brought by San Francisco African Americans like William Bowen and Mary Ellen Pleasant that challenged the "whites-only" practices of the privately owned streetcars. [27] [28] In 1893 streetcar segregation was officially outlawed on statewide streetcars by the California legislature. [1] [29]