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In 1971, his son, Calvin B. Tilden, took over and it remained in the family until 2011 when San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department evicted them. There was a protest and controversy over the change in tenants that was led by Suzanne Renee Dumont, who created the Save Stow Lake Boathouse Coalition and authored the 2010 Historic Landmark ...
Golden Gate Park is an urban park between the Richmond and Sunset districts of San Francisco, California, United States.It is the largest park in the city, containing 1,017 acres (412 ha), and the third-most visited urban park in the United States, with an estimated 24 million visitors annually.
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William W. Stow (September 13, 1824 – February 20, 1895) was an American politician and member the California State Assembly from the 3rd district between 1854 and 1857; he was Speaker in 1855. Blue Heron Lake in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco was formerly named Stow Lake after him.
The Roald Amundsen Memorial by Sigvald Asbjørnsen is installed in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, in the U.S. state of California. It honours Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen, the first person to the South Pole.
William Hammond Hall was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, on February 12, 1846. [1]After serving with the U.S. army engineers in the Civil War, Hall was assigned in the latter part of the 1860s to surveying the Western regions of the United States and preparing topographical maps.
Public concern over bird flu ratcheted up this week as the H5N1 virus continued its sweep through the nation's dairy and poultry farms and the first American was hospitalized with a severe infection.
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, U.S. A bust of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk by Josef Mařatka is ...