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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XVE_bernard-maybeck-1862-1957-historical_San-Francisco-CA.html
Walk through the grounds of the Palace of Fine Arts and notice how vistas change before your eyes. As vegetation frames and softens the lines of the architecture, the architecture in turn becomes a picture frame, highlighting views of the lush lan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XPV_the-palace-lagoon-historical_San-Francisco-CA.html
The lagoon fronting the Palace of Fine Arts is a relic of San Francisco's early landscape. It was once part of a slough on a tidal wetland stretching from present-day Divisadero Street well into the Presidio. Salt water from the San Francisco Bay …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JOX_lincoln-beachey_San-Francisco-CA.html
Lincoln Beachey was born in San Francisco and called the city "home" all his short life. His aerial adventures started at age 18, flying dirigibles. Beachey made the world's first air mail delivery during an air show in Portland, Oregon,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BSO_marina-air-field_San-Francisco-CA.html
There are two markers mounted on opposite sides of the flagpole base in the Marina Green
This plaque marks the site of the Marina Air FieldThe first terminus of the United States Post Office Dept. Trans-ContinentalAir Mail ServiceThe first sch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BSN_fort-mason_San-Francisco-CA.html
In response to the 1906 earthquake and fire, and recognizing the critical role of Fort Mason as a naval operations center, Congress appropriated funds to construct the tree piers in use today. Built on land reclaimed from a tidal cove, Fort Mason …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BRY_fort-mason-historic-district_San-Francisco-CA.html
The Panama Pacific International Exposition, 635 acres of grand imagination, proclaimed to the world that San Francisco was fully recovered from the 1906 earthquake. Exhibition-filled palaces were built on filled marshlands between Fort Mason and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BRX_san-francisco-port-of-embarkation_San-Francisco-CA.html
First the Spanish and then the American military used this bluff to guard the harbor against hostile invasion. As the 19th century came to a close, Fort Mason's mission shifted from keeping enemy ships out of the bay to sending U.S. military ships…