A fashionable neighborhood in the 1860s, Rincon Hill was the home of
William Tecumseh Sherman, William C. Ralston, William Gwin, H. H.
Bancroft, and others. By the 1880s the hill, already partially leveled,
became a working class district. Today it is nearly invisible beneath the
Bay Bridge. This plaque is mounted on the retaining wall of St. Mary's
Hospital, built in 1861 but destroyed in the fire of 1906.

California Historical Landmark No. 84
Plaque placed by the State Department of
Parks and Recreation in
Cooperation with the Yerba Buena Chapter No. 1 of E Clampus Vitus and
Charles Albert Shumate, April 16, 1981

Plaque replaced in cooperation with the California Department of Transportation
and Yerba Buena Number One, Capitulus Redivivus, E
Clampsus Vitus, after removal of St. Mary's Hospital retaining wall and
installed approximately 900 feet northeast of original location in
October of 2011

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