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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRJO_site-of-ship-niantic_San-Francisco-CA.html
The emigrant ship Niantic stood on this spot in the early days "when the water came up to Montgomery Street." Converted to other uses, it was covered with a shingle roof with offices and stores on the deck, at the level which was constructed a wid…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR48_first-jewish-religious-services_San-Francisco-CA.html
In a second floor room in a store which stood on this location, forty pioneers of Jewish faith gathered on Yom Kippur (5610) September 26, 1849, and participated in the first Jewish religious services in San Francisco.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR43_the-banking-firm-of-pioche-et-bayerque_San-Francisco-CA.html
On this site in the mid-1850's Francois L.A. Pioche built an office building which housed the banking firm of Pioche et Bayerque, one of the most important financial institutions in the West during the two decades after the Gold Rush. The financin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQVC_hotaling-building_San-Francisco-CA.html
Built in 1866 and occupied by A.P. Hotaling & Co., this building housed the largest liquor repository on the West Coast. It survived the 1906 earthquake and fire due to a mile long fire hose laid from Fisherman's Wharf over Telegraph Hill by the U…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMJU_western-headquarters-of-russell-majors-and-waddell_San-Francisco-CA.html
This was the site of the western business headquarters of Russell, Majors, and Waddell — founders, owners, and operators of the Pony Express, 1860-1861. The firm's main office was in Leavenworth, Kansas. W.W. Finney was the western represent…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMME1_the-san-francisco-society-for-the-prevention-of-cruelty-to-animals_San-Francisco-CA.html
Near this site occurredthe incident which led to the formation ofThe San FranciscoSociety for the Preventionof Cruelty to Animalson April 8, 1868———————————James Sloan Hutchinson, a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMAK_site-of-the-bank-of-lucas-turner-co_San-Francisco-CA.html
William Tecumseh Sherman established the branch bank of Lucas, Turner & Co. in San Francisco in 1853. He settled the firm in their own building on the northeast corner of Jackson and Montgomery Streets in the spring of 1854. Sherman successfully c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM8F_site-of-what-cheer-house_San-Francisco-CA.html
This is the site of the famous What Cheer House, a unique hotel opened in 1852 by R. B. Woodward and destroyed by the fire of 1906. The What Cheer House catered to men only, permitted no liquor on the premises, and housed San Francisco's first fre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM78_old-ship-saloon_San-Francisco-CA.html
After a 178 day voyage from New York via Cape Horn in 1849 the sailing ship "Arkansas" arrived in San Francisco Bay. Among her 112 passengers were 76 Methodists, all bound for the gold fields or church propagation. The ship was nearly lost while a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDRU_farnsworths-green-street-lab_San-Francisco-CA.html
In a simple laboratory on this site, 202 Green Street, Philo Taylor Farnsworth, U.S. pioneer in electronics,invented and patented the first operational all-electronic "television system" on September 7, 1927. The 21 year-old inventor and several d…