San Francisco, California, USA
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Upon independence from Spain in 1821, the area became part of Mexico. Under Mexican rule, the mission system gradually ended, and its lands became privatized. In 1835, Englishman William Richardson erected the first independent homestead, near a boat anchorage around what is today Portsmouth Square. Together with Alcalde Francisco de Haro, he laid out a street plan for the expanded settlement, and the town, named Yerba Buena, began to attract American settlers. Commodore John D. Sloat claimed California for the United States on July 7, 1846, during the Mexican–American War, and Captain John B. Montgomery arrived to claim Yerba Buena two days later. Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco on January 30 of the next year, and Mexico officially ceded the territory to the United States at the end of the war. Despite its attractive location as a port and naval base, San Francisco was still a small settlement with inhospitable geography.
The California Gold Rush brought a flood of treasure seekers (known as "forty-niners", as in "1849"). With their sourdough bread in tow, prospectors accumulated in San Francisco over rival Benicia, raising the population from 1,000 in 1848 to 25,000 by December 1849...wikipedia
San Francisco, California, USA
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Picturesque America... Oliver Bell Bunce, William Cullen Bryant
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"The Cliff House is a restaurant perched on the headland above the cliffs just north of Ocean Beach, on the western side of San Francisco, California. It overlooks the site of the former Sutro Baths and is now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, operated by the National Park Service. On the terrace of the Cliff House is a room-sized camera obscura.
Cliff House has had five major incarnations since its beginnings in 1858. That year, Samuel Brannan, a prosperous ex-Mormon elder from Maine, bought for $1,500 the lumber salvaged from a ship that foundered on the basalt cliffs below. With this material he built the first Cliff House.
The second Cliff House was built in 1863, and leased to Captain Junius G. Foster. It was a long trek from the city and hosted mostly horseback riders, small game hunters or picnickers on day outings. With the opening of the Point Lobos toll road a year later, the Cliff House became successful with the Carriage trade for Sunday travel. Later the builders of the toll road constructed a two-mile speedway beside it where well-to-do San Franciscans raced their horses along the way. On weekends, there was little room at the Cliff House hitching racks for tethering the horses for the thousands of rigs. Soon, omnibus, railways and streetcar lines made it to near Lone Mountain where passengers transferred to stagecoach lines to the beach. The growth of Golden Gate Park attracted beach travellers, in search of meals and a look at the sea lions sunning themselves on Seal Rocks just off the cliffs, to visit the area..." wikipedia)
The "Cliff House"
Picturesque America... Oliver Bell Bunce, William Cullen Bryant
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1872-1874.
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Fisherman's Wharf
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1847 - January 30 – Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.www.wikipedia.org
January 30, 1847
1852 - July 3 - Congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, California)historyorb.com
July 3, 1852
1866 - TERRIBLE EXPLOSION -- GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.San Francisco, Monday, April 16.
A terrible explosion of what was supposed to be nitro...Read MORE...
1868 - Built on Made LandSan Francisco is so largely built on made land that the timbers of old wharves were recently...Read MORE...
1868 - In digging a foundation in San Francisco, a heavy barrel was exhumed, and great was the excitement when it became rumored that a barrel of gold dust had been hidden there some twenty years ago.When opened, it proved to be full of very putrid flour.
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August 22, 1868
1869 - First westbound train arrived in San Francisco
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1869 - Teaching Chinese GirlsTeachers are to be employed to instruct the Chinese girls in San Francisco, where they are rapidly...Read MORE...
1873 - August 2 - A San Francisco cable car travels on Clay Street between Kearny and Jones Streets during its first trial run.
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1874 - A Curious ClockA Thompson, Connecticut, clock company has shipped a curious clock to San Francisco, to be placed...Read MORE...
1876 - June 4 - An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City.historyorb.com
June 4, 1876
1887 - San Francisco experienced its greatest snowstorm of record. Nearly four inches was reported in downtown San Francisco, and the western hills of the city received seven inches. Excited crowds went on a snowball throwing rampage
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1889 - November 23 - Debut of 1st jukebox (Palais Royale Saloon, San Francisco)historyorb.com
November 23, 1889
1900 - FELL ON MOLTEN GLASS. Scores Killed and Injured by the Collapse of a Roof. SEVERAL ROASTED TO DEATH.Disaster Occurred at a Football Game in San Francisco - Victims Were Hurled on a Red Hot Furnace -...Read MORE...
1901 - San Francisco - By the West Gate of the World by Edwin Markham
If Xenophon had journeyed westward from Athens, pressing beyond the amber caverns of the Baltic,...Read MORE...
If Xenophon had journeyed westward from Athens, pressing beyond the amber caverns of the Baltic,...Read MORE...
1901 - February 22 - The Pacific Mail Steamship Company's SS City of Rio de Janeiro sinks entering San Francisco Bay, killing 128.
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February 22, 1901
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February 22, 1901
1905 - San Francisco - The popsicle was invented by 11-years-old Frank Epperson in 1905. Epperson (1894-?) lived in San Francisco, California.
Epperson had left a fruit drink out overnight (with a stirrer in it), and it froze, making a new...Read MORE...
Epperson had left a fruit drink out overnight (with a stirrer in it), and it froze, making a new...Read MORE...
1906 - EarthquakeApril 18, 1906 - An earthquake in San Francisco is followed by four days of a devastating fire. An...Read MORE...
1906 - October 11 – A United States diplomatic crisis with Japan arises when the San Francisco public school board orders Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.www.wikipedia.org
October 11, 1906
1915 - February 20 – In San Francisco the Panama-Pacific International Exposition is opened.www.wikipedia.org
February 20, 1915
1916 - July 22 – In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade, killing 10 injuring 40www.wikipedia.org
July 22, 1916
1917 - January 25 – An anti-prostitution drive in San Francisco occurs and police close about 200 prostitution houses.www.wikipedia.org
January 25, 1917
1929 - March 2 – The longest bridge in the world at this time, the San Francisco Bay Toll-Bridge, opens.www.wikipedia.org
March 2, 1929
1933 - January 5 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.Before the project began, many people thought building the bridge was impossible. And when the...Read MORE...
1937 - May 27 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic.The next day, with a push of a telegraph button, President Franklin Roosevelt opened the bridge to...Read MORE...
1939 - February 18 – The Golden Gate International Exposition opens in San Francisco, California.
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February 18, 1939
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February 18, 1939
June 26, 1945: United Nations charter signed, San Francisco, CAThe Old Farmer's Almanac www.almanac.com
June 26, 1945
1949 - CHINATOWN FIRE DAMAGE $20,000.San Francisco, Sept. 9. (AP) - A three alarm fire his Chinatown early Thursday.
The blaze broke...Read MORE...
1956 - January 9 - First "Dear Abby" column appears in San Francisco ChronicleHow Dear Abby column started at The Chronicle
TODAY'S EXTRA: Her column of sage advice started at...Read MORE...
1989 - October 17 - An earthquake in San Francisco (6.9 on the Richter scale) kills 67 people and leads to the cancellation of game 3 of the World Series.
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1989 - October 17 - An earthquake in San Francisco (6.9 on the Richter scale) kills 67 people and leads to the cancellation of game 3 of the World Series.
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Ancestors Who Were Born Here
 
Stephen C. GLOVER
(25 September 1866, San Francisco, California, USA - 25 April 1912, Phoenix, Arizona, USA)
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Addie MOULTON
(14 March 1854, San Francisco, California, USA - , )
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Alice MOULTON
(14 March 1854, San Francisco, California, USA - 9 March 1933, Piedmont, Alameda, California, USA)
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Florence MOULTON
(1 March 1869, San Francisco, California, USA - 5 November 1962, , California, USA)
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Frank Fielding MOULTON
(9 October 1856, San Francisco, California, USA - 11 March 1920, Menlo Park, San Mateo, California, USA)
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Josiah Watson MOULTON
(23 February 1862, San Francisco, California, USA - 23 April 1885, San Francisco, California, USA)
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George WHITTELL
(28 September 1881, San Francisco, California, USA - 17 April 1969, San Mateo, California, USA)
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Ancestors Who Died Here
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James Blanchard BROWN
(23 April 1825, Newbury, Massachusetts, USA - 29 September 1849, San Francisco, California, USA)
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Dennis George CLARY
(8 December 1839, , County Kerry, Ireland - 2 June 1912, San Francisco, California, USA)
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James Ann CROW
(14 February 1842, , Kentucky, USA - 15 May 1916, San Francisco, California, USA)
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Burdette Mase FITCH
(12 February 1896, , Kansas, USA - 6 November 1977, San Francisco, California, USA)
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Warren Gamaliel HARDING
(2 November 1865, , Ohio, USA - 2 August 1923, San Francisco, California, USA)
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Arthur LALIBERTE
(29 January 1911, Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA - 25 January 1983, San Francisco, California, USA)
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Walter Stevens MCDONELL
(25 December 1870, Waterloo, Quebec, Canada - 1 September 1943, San Francisco, California, USA)
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Fred S. MCMAHON
(1824, , Ireland - 5 April 1869, San Francisco, California, USA)
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Josiah Watson MOULTON
(15 August 1823, Milton, New Hampshire, USA - 25 March 1886, San Francisco, California, USA)
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Josiah Watson MOULTON
(23 February 1862, San Francisco, California, USA - 23 April 1885, San Francisco, California, USA)
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Adeline Wittemore PARKER
(July 1827, Amherst, New Hampshire, USA - 21 July 1901, San Francisco, California, USA)
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Rev Albert Edgar STEVENS
(Dec 04, 1854 , Nashua, New Hampshire, USA (Dunstable) - Oct 2, 1922, San Francisco, California, USA)
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Jackson TEMPLE
(11 August 1827, Heath, Massachusetts, USA - 25 December 1902, San Francisco, California, USA)
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Wilhelm Gustav TSCHIRCH
(July 1846, Goerlitz, Saxony, Germany - January 24, 1909, San Francisco, California, USA)
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Ancestors Who Were Married Here
Cemeteries in San Francisco, California, USA
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