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California Historical Landmarks (PH 9-13)(Before 1969) (134 pages)
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UNION SQUARE
This was the center of San Francisco in pioneer days, deeded
623 for public use January 3, 1850, during the administration of
John White Geary, first mayor and postmaster, and later Goyernor of Kansas and Pennsylvania. The name originated in
1860 when public meetings were held here in support of the
Union.
Post, Geary, Stockton and Powell, San Francisco (San Francisco)
WARRING PARK
On August 11, 1769, the explorers and priests accompanying
624 Portola found a populous village of Piru Indians near this point.
Carrying their bowstrings loose, they offered necklaces of stones
in exchange for which the Governor presented the Indians with
beads.
Piru (Ventura)
PIONEER SCHOOLHOUSE
In 1857 the residents of the eastern end of American Valley
625 built a school, the first schoolhouse in Plumas County. On July
2, 1857, Mr. S. A. Ballou was engaged as teacher for 19 children.
The building is now used for kindergarten purposes (1957).
2 miles east of Quincy (Plumas)
BANCROFT RANCH HOUSE
This is the adobe house constructed in the 1850's by
626 A. S. Ensworth. Hubert Howe Bancroft, leading western historian, occupied this adobe during the latter part of the 19th
century.
Bancroft Drive, Spring Valley (San Diego)
UNION HOTEL AND UNION HALL
The original hotel was a one-story adobe and the adjoining
627 hall was a frame structure with One story. After the fire of
1866, a two-story stone hotel was built and a two-story frame
hall with rooms upstairs for hotel guests. The Union Hotel
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was conducted as a hotel until 1955 when the Bank of America
acquired the property.
Napa and First Street West, Sonoma (Sonoma)
ALPHA HYDRAULIC DIGGINGS
One mile north of here were the towns of Alpha and Omega,
628 named by gold miners in the early 1850’s. The tremendous hydraulic diggings, visible from near this point, engulfed most of
the original townsites. Alpha was the birthplace of famed opera
singer Emma Nevada. Mining at Omega continued until
1949; and lumbering operations are carried on there today
(1958)
Highway 20, 10 miles from U.S. 40 (Nevada)
OMEGA HYDRAULIC DIGGINGS AND TOWNSITE
629 Text same as Landmark No. 628.
Highway 20, 10 miles from U.S. 40 (Nevada)
ST. VINCENT’S SCHOOL FOR BOYS
In 1853, Timothy Murphy, Irish-born pioneer of Marin County,
630 gave 317 acres of land to Archbishop Alemany for educational
Purposes. Here the Sisters of Charity in 1855 founded a school.
Now called St. Vincent’s School for Boys, it has been maintained and enlarged by successive archbishops of San Francisco.
4 miles north of San Rafael (Marin)
GARCES BAPTISMAL SITE
Three miles north of this point was the site of the first re631 corded Christian baptism in the San Joaquin Valley. On Vy
3, 1776, Padre Francisco Garcés, earliest white man In this
area, baptised an Indian boy whom he called Muchachito at
a Yokuts Rancheria in Grizzly Gulch.
16 miles east of Delano (Kern)
“OLD SHORT CUT” F
This is California’s first ranger station, built in 1900 by Loule.