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California Historical Landmarks (PH 9-13)(Before 1969) (134 pages)
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PRESIDIO OF SAN FRANCISCO
Formally established on September 17, 1776, the San Francisco
79 Presidio has been administered successively as a military headquarters by Spain, Mexico, and the United States. It was a major
command post during the Mexican War, Civil War, SpanishAmerican War, World Wars I and II, and the Korean War, and
remains a symbol of United States authority in the Pacific.
Moraga Avenue, San Francisco (San Francisco)
MONTGOMERY BLOCK
This is the site of San Francisco's first fireproof building, erected
80 in 1853 by Henry Wager Halleck, and was the headquarters for
many outstanding lawyers, financiers, writers, actors, and artists. James King of William, editor of the Bulletin, died here
after being shot by James Casey, May 14, 1856. This building
escaped destruction in the fire of 1906.
Southeast corner of Montgomery and Washington, San Francisco
(San Francisco)
LANDING PLACE OF CAPTAIN J. B. MONTGOMERY
On July 9, 1846, in the early morning, in “the days when the
81 water came up to Montgomery Street,” Commander John B.
Montgomery, for whom Montgomery Street was named, landed
near this spot from the U.S. Sloop-of-War Portsmouth. The purpose was to raise the Stars and Stripes on the Plaza, now Portsmouth Square.
Southeast corner of Montgomery and Clay, San Francisco (San FranCisco)
CASTILLO DE SAN JOAQUIN
The first ship to enter San Francisco Bay, the San Carlos (Cap82 tain Ayala), dropped anchor off this point August 5, 1775. Lieutenant-Colonel Don Juan Bautista de Anza planted the cross on
Cantil Blanco (white cliff) March 28, 1776. The first fortification,
Castillo de San Joaquin, was completed December 8, 1794, by
José Joaquin de Arrillaga, sixth Governor of California. In 1853
United States Army engineers cut down the cliff and built Fort
Point, renamed Fort Winfield Scott in 1882. This fort is a partial replica of Fort Sumpter and is the only brick fort west of
the Mississippi. Its sea wall has stood undamaged for 100 years.
Fort Point, San Francisco (San Francisco)
SHORELINE MARKERS
“This tablet marks the shoreline of San Francisco Bay at the
83 time of the discovery of gold in California, January 24, 1848.
Map reproduced above delineates old shoreline.”
Battery, Bush, and Market, San Francisco (San Francisco)
RINCON HILL
Rincon Hill, lowest of San Francisco’s hills, was converted into
84 a government reserve, with a battery of 32-pounders located on
it, in 1846. In 1853 a marine hospital was constructed here on the
hill; it was demolished in 1919. During the 1860's and 1870's it
was a fashionable residential district of San Francisco.
First Street between Harrison and Bryant, San Francisco (San Francisco)
OFFICE OF THE STAR NEWSPAPER
On this site January 9, 1847, the California Star, the first news85 paper in San Francisco, was published by Samuel Brannan with
Elbert P. Jones as editor. The paper was later known as The
Alta Californian.
Washington and Brenham, San Francisco (San Francisco)
CALIFORNIA THEATRE
On this site January 18, 1869, the California Theatre, built by
86 William C. Ralston, opened with the following stock company:
John McCullough, Lawrence Barrett, Harry Edwards, Willie
Edouin, E. B. Holmes, William Mastayer, John T, Raymond, W.
F. Burroughs, W. H. Sadley Smith, John Wilson, Edward J.
Buckley, Mrs. Judah Emelie Melville, Elizabeth Saunders, Annette Ince, Marie E. Gordon, Sophie Edwin, Minnie Walton,
and Julia Buckley. This theater remained a brilliant center of
25.