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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23T7_klockars-blacksmith-shop_San-Francisco-CA.html
Beginning in the 1860s, foundries South of Market Street fabricated mining machinery, railroad cars, and ships. This 1912 machine shop is the last. Fred V. Wilbert forged fine tools here. Edwin A. Klockars (1898-1994), a native of Munsmo, Finland,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QZZ_building-the-seawall_San-Francisco-CA.html
You are standing on section twelve of San Francisco's great seawall that was built between the years 1878 and 1924. Known as the Bulkhead, this continuous and massive embankment of stone was designed to hold back the bay, creating the curving line…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QZV_the-alaska-packers_San-Francisco-CA.html
The Fremont Street Wharf angled 500 feet northeast into the bay from this place from 1869 to 1907. At that time the Alaska Packers; fleet of wooden and iron square rigged ships and barks loaded here, sailing 2,500 miles north to Alaska each spring…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QZA_beale-street-wharf_San-Francisco-CA.html
Until this section of the seawall was completed in 1909, the waters of San Francisco Bay reached the shore near present-day Bryant Street. From this place, the Beale Street Wharf extended 500 feet into the bay, and inland for another 500 feet as f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QYW_the-bay-bridge_San-Francisco-CA.html
Begun in 1933 in the depths of the Depression, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge put hundreds of men to work on two six-hour shifts, morning and night, for three years and seven months, to finish two months ahead of schedule on November 12, 19…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QYU_the-matson-line_San-Francisco-CA.html
From 1926 until 1970, piers 30 and 32 were famous as the San Francisco base of operations of the Matson Line, founded by Captain William Matson, who in 1882 borrowed $4,000 from a scow schooner man to buy shares in the sailing schooner Emma Claudi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QY5_fireboats-on-the-bay_San-Francisco-CA.html
You are facing San Francisco's only waterfront firehouse, built in 1913 for the fireboats and their crews. Fireboats stand by, directly alongside the fire station wharf, always ready for action. All along the waterfront are special manifold pipes …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QXW_fast-tides-frisky-winds-wet-sails_San-Francisco-CA.html
"It has been said that all great cities of history have been built on bodies of water - Rome on the Tiber, Paris on the Seine, London on the Thames, New York on the Hudson. If this is a criterion of a city's greatness, surely San Francisco ranks i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QXR_the-big-strike_San-Francisco-CA.html
Revolution in San Francisco; July 6. 1934...Blood ran red in the streets of San Francisco yesterday. In the darkest day this city has known since April 18, 1906, one thousand embattled police held at bay five thousand longshoremen and their sympat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QXO_getting-around_San-Francisco-CA.html
The clangor of their coming and going comprised a contrapuntal symphony of cosmopolis. — Lucius Beebe, Cable Car Carnival
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Getting Around San Francisco, 1860's & 1870's
Mostly surrounded by water wit…