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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC1V_colma-historical-museum_Colma-CA.html
This building memorializes the contributions of the Abbey Land and Improvement Company to the development of Colma. The company established Mount Olivet Memorial Park, the sixth cemetery to be built in Colma, and constructed a streetcar line along…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC19_mount-olivet-cemetery-office-and-streetcar-line_Colma-CA.html
In 1896, the Abbey Land and Improvement Company established Mount Olivet Cemetery. During that year, the company also obtained a franchise from the County of San Mateo to run a street car line from the tracks of the "40 Line" to the office buildin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC11_city-of-san-carlos-veterans-memorial_San-Carlos-CA.html
Dedicated to the lasting memory of those from the City of San Carlos and San Carlos High School who gave their lives while serving with the Armed Forces of the United States of America during the Vietnam War and in the Persian Gulf.They fought and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC0U_eugene-a-doran-memorial-bridge_Burlingame-CA.html
An officer for the Town of Hillsborough from April 1, 1956 until his untimely death on August 5, 1959, who made the supreme sacrifice at the hands of a criminal suspect whom he had apprehended.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC00_broderick-terry-duel_Daly-City-CA.html
The famous duel that ended dueling in California was fought in a ravine east of here, near the shore of Lake Merced. In the early morning of September 13, 1859. The participants were U.S. Senator David C. Broderick and Chief Justice David S. Terry…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB7O_the-san-andreas-fault_Coloma-CA.html
The San Andreas Fault is the largest earthquake fault in North America. It passes through this point and alongside the tip of the small peninsula straight ahead.
In this area, during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the west side of the fault…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAEU_town-of-west-union_Redwood-City-CA.html
The town of West Union stood between today's Edgewood Road and Raymundo Drive in Woodside. The town was originally developed by the employees of two lumber mills on West Union Creek established by Willard Whipple. Farming supplemented the lumber w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM98X_in-memorial-to-the-commercial-fisherman-lost-at-sea_Half-Moon-Bay-CA.html
Down to the sea in ships they go, these chosen men of steel. Though mist and foam and northwest wind is pounding at the keel. So sail they must each crispy morn, away from trees and sod. The sea may own their windburned flesh but their souls belon…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM95Q_burlingame-train-station_Burlingame-CA.html
"The prettiest station on the line" - S. F. Chronicle, December 10, 1893.First opened for service October 10, 1894.Restored June 14, 1986.Cal Trans - Save our Station Committee - City of Burlingame100 years of continuous rail service celebrated Se…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8X0_joseph-debenedetti-building_Half-Moon-Bay-CA.html
The decade of the 1870's saw an influx of European immigrants into the Half Moon Bay area and over to the coast. Irish, German, Italian, and Portuguese made up the majority of the newcomers whose numbers included merchants, business people, dairy …