The brigantine Galilee "...has invariably outsailed and outpointed every vessel with which she has ever been in company, and has the reputation of being the smartest sailing vessel out of San Francisco."
— The Rudder, . . . — — Map (db m116754) HM
Powerful, profane, brilliant, fierce—think about Phil Burton and you have to think in big, dramatic terms. He wasn't a moderate man. Elected to Congress from San Francisco in 1964, he fought for workers' rights, for seniors and people with . . . — — Map (db m132243) HM
On August 5 1775, the Spanish Packet San Carlos, under the command of Lieutenant Juan Manuel Ayala, became the first ship to sail into San Francisco Bay. A month and a half was spent in surveying the Bay from its southern most reaches to the . . . — — Map (db m64008) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m70027) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m70001) HM
First fortified by the Spanish in 1797, this bluff above the bay was re-armed by the U.S. Army in 1864. The post remained active through the Civil War, western Indian Wars, and conflicts abroad, beginning with the Spanish-American War in 1898. . . . — — Map (db m70025) HM
In Everlasting Memory of San Francisco's
"Cable Car Lady"
Friedel Klussman
Constant of spirit and tirelessly committed to
the beauty of her city, Friedel Klussman provided
initiative and leadership to assure
Cable Cars and Street . . . — — Map (db m195717) HM
In 1972, under the leadership of
Congressman Phillip Burton
legislation was introduced and passed by the
Congress of the United States to establish the
Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
This plaque is placed here in his
honor . . . — — Map (db m169244) HM
Phil Burton wasn't a moderate man. Elected to Congress from San Francisco in 1964, he fought for workers' rights, for seniors and for people with disabilities, and for the impoverished and under-privileged. Once convinced that creating national . . . — — Map (db m168859) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m70000) HM
Army’s primary depot for Pacific operation
First garrisoned by U.S. Army troops during the Civil War, Fort Mason later played a key role in the emergence of the United States as an international power. Throughout the 1800s, the young . . . — — Map (db m70018) HM
Critical Logistics Center for the Army’s Pacific Operations.
From its start in 1902 as an army hospital, built to accommodate twelve patients, this building went on to become the U. S. Army’s headquarters for troop and supply transport to the . . . — — Map (db m63580) HM
In 1886 a lodging house and saloon stood across the street to your left.
The establishment hosted dockworkers and those coming to frolic at the popular
swimming cove of Black Point Beach, now Aquatic Park. It would be named
the Buena Vista Cafe . . . — — Map (db m177109) HM
This building was the superintendent’s office at the Tubbs Cordage Company factory, or ropewalk. This pioneering industrial plant was located on Iowa Street in the Portero district from 1856 until 1963.
Alfred and Hiram Tubbs founded the firm . . . — — Map (db m234185) HM
Imagine how the Glen Canyon Park used to be part of the open rolling hills far south of San Francisco and how you might feel if you came across this 70 acre, 500 foot deep canyon for the first time, protected by the winds down with its own . . . — — Map (db m143531) HM
Giant Powder Company, under personal license of inventor
Alfred Nobel, began producing dynamite here on March 19, 1868.
On November 26, 1869, a massive explosion leveled the complex's
buildings and fences. Giant Powder soon resumed operations . . . — — Map (db m174431) HM
In commemoration of the Inauguration of the California Midwinter International Exposition
On this spot the first shovelfull of earth was turned
With ceremonies on August 24th, 1893. — — Map (db m233017) HM
In 1870, the newly established Golden
Gate Park was mostly sand dunes.
When some barley grain spilled from
a horse's feedbag and took root, it gave
park engineers an idea. They planted
barley in abundance, stabilizing the
dunes with a root . . . — — Map (db m176651) HM
In tribute to General Pershing and the victorious armies of the United States and her co-belligerents during the World War 1914-1918
Presented by Dr. Morris Herzstein 1922 — — Map (db m232777) WM
Before Golden Gate Park was built there was a great debate on where the park should be located. Three choices were on the table, the current location (at that time called the "outside lands"), the presidio, and a long linear park through Hayes . . . — — Map (db m132077) HM
In the winter of 1894 the California Midwinter Exposition arrived in Golden Gate Park. Some of the most popular attractions at the fair were exhibits of people from around the world; Native Americans, Egyptians, Aleutians, Hawaiians, Turks, South . . . — — Map (db m132112) HM
The reconstruction of the Japanese Tea Garden gates was the result of efforts by San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein and Mayor Yasushi Oshima of our sister city, Osaka, Japan. The gates were designed by Ohbayashi Corporation while the . . . — — Map (db m132104) HM
The weathered stones in the limestone wall that frames this garden were once part of the Cistercian Monastery in Santa Maria de Ovila in Spain.
1188 The monastery was founded, and for over six centuries it dominated its surroundings near . . . — — Map (db m106634) HM
In 1947, the first restoration project executed included minor repairs to the windmill and replacement of the sail stocks. The 114-foot spars made out of 6 tons of laminated wood were shipped from Portland, Oregon to replace two deteriorated . . . — — Map (db m133484) HM
Natural Resources are either renewable or non-renewable. Non-renewable resources like coal, petroleum, and natural gas were formed hundreds of millions of years ago from ancient living plants and animals. After millions of years, these . . . — — Map (db m133571)
Windmills, including the Murphy Windmill and the Dutch Windmill to the north, are structures that harness the power of wind energy to perform work. Throughout history, windmills have been used to grind wheat, cut wood, generate electricity, and . . . — — Map (db m133577) HM
Marker One:
Originally constructed 1902 Restoration Completed 1981
The restoration of this historic landmark was made possible by Mrs. Eleanor Rossi Crabtree through her personal fund raising efforts, the many contributors, and the . . . — — Map (db m210880) HM
Concrete
Museum collection
These sphinxes replaced the original pair commissioned from Arthur Putnam for the entrance to the Fine Arts Building of the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition. The building's Egyptian Revival . . . — — Map (db m232779) HM
In the 1860's, San Francisco was a booming city fueled by the Gold Rush and the first transcontinental railroad. Civic leaders envisioned a large park and arboretum similar to those in European cities and the eastern United States. Skeptics . . . — — Map (db m106635) HM
Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian polar explorer, was the first to detect the magnetic North Pole and to navigate the Northwest Passage, the Arctic water route from the Atlantic to the Pacific. He left Norway with a crew of six on June 16 of 1903 in 1 . . . — — Map (db m21336) HM
This bronze bust is a copy of the cast made in 1814 by George Bullock from the stone bust of Shakespeare in the Stratford-Upon-Avon church hewn by Garrett Jansen shortly after the poet’s death. One of the two replicas made by Bullock is in the . . . — — Map (db m234656) HM
The 1906 earthquake had devastating consequences for the California Academy of Sciences. Immediately following the earthquake, dedicated staff members were able to rush to the Academy before the fire arrived and saved one carload of precious . . . — — Map (db m132051) HM
The Midwinter Exposition covered 160 acres and opened officially on January 27, 1894. 180 structures representing all California Counties, 4 other states, the Arizona Territory, and 18 foreign nations and villages, including a Japanese Village, . . . — — Map (db m132056) HM
California’s first municipal greenhouse was completed in 1879. It was patterned after the Conservatory, Kew Gardens, England. A distinguished example of late Victorian style using early techniques of mass production and assembly of simple glass . . . — — Map (db m143442) HM
In 1919, major portions of the second de Young museum were completed in the Spanish Plateresque style. The central section and the tower were added in 1921, and the west wing in 1925. The original building was deemed unsafe and demolished in . . . — — Map (db m132072) HM
This grove is dedicated to the memory of the members of the San Francisco Parlors, Native Sons of the Golden West, who gave their lives in the World's Wars I and II.
World War I 1917-1918
Thomas J. Brady • Sylvan Brilliant • Herman . . . — — Map (db m235966) WM
The first public children's playground in the United States was established here in 1887 by gift funds received from the Sharon bequest. The east expansion and rehabilitation work of 1977 were funded by Walter and Elise Haas, by Walter and . . . — — Map (db m40374) HM
The general arrangement of the Music Concourse is based upon Michael O'Shaughnessy's design of the Grand Court for the California Midwinter Exposition of 1894. Remnants of the Midwinter Exposition can still be seen today; the dome-topped bollards . . . — — Map (db m132132) HM
Bronze
Gift of M. H. de Young 53696
Gustave Doré created this vase for French winemakers who exhibited it at the 1878 Paris World's Fair. Decorating the colossal wine vessel are cupids, satyrs, and bacchantes associated with Bacchus, the Roman . . . — — Map (db m232775) HM
Located at the corner made famous during
the hippie movement, this Colonial Revival style house
was constructed in 1903 as the personal residence of Richard P. Doolan. A year after the 1906 earthquake and fire, he raised the
building to . . . — — Map (db m176626) HM
This plaque marks.
the site of the former practice of
Dr. Oscar J. Jackson, M.D., FACS
In honor of his commitment, spirit,
innovation, and steadfast dedication
to providing the highest quality
medical care to all in need in this . . . — — Map (db m176629) HM
Americanization was difficult for the Issei. Prejudice, language barriers and discrimination often stymied their efforts, yet they persisted, often venturing into Western society with great zeal. With the Nisei generation, however, the Japanese . . . — — Map (db m192570) HM
Born in Germany on October 18, 1842, Captain Terschuren arrived in California during the Golden Age of Steam Boating (1849-1871).
In 1865, he took residency in San Francisco and was a well-known steamboat captain, river pilot and owner of . . . — — Map (db m162429) HM
Life in America was full of unknowns for an Issei (Japanese immigrant) departing Japan in the early l900s. She may have come to America as a laborer or accompanying her husband. More likely, she came as a picture bride through an arranged marriage . . . — — Map (db m86487) HM
Mother of Civil Rights in California.
She supported the western terminus of the underground railway for fugitive slaves, 1850-1865. This legendary pioneer once lived on this site and planted these six trees.
Placed by the San . . . — — Map (db m85557) HM
Soto Mission of San Francisco
Sokoji 1934 - 1994
Soto Zen Buddhist Temple
Commemorating the 60th anniversary of the
founding of the Sokoji congregation, and the 10th
anniversary of the construction of this temple.
December 8, 1934 - . . . — — Map (db m162708) HM
Kitaichi Sakai arrived in San Francisco in the 1890s. He worked as a cook and sold fish door-to-door from a horse and buggy. After the 1906 Earthquake he opened a combined grocery, fish market and ship's chandlery on Geary Street. The store's name . . . — — Map (db m85558) HM
The builders of the West, civic and military leaders, jurists, inventors, artists, and eleven United States Senators were buried here – the most revered of San Francisco’s Hills — — Map (db m143435) HM
We will never forget the genocidal slaughter of six million Jews, including one and a half million children in the Nazi Holocaust of 1933-1945.
We will never forget the cruel apathy of a world which allowed that Holocaust and the deliberate . . . — — Map (db m56540) HM
Reinhardt J. Keppler
Died serving his country fighting raging flames to save our ship, USS San Francisco at midnight, Nov. 12-13, 1942
Honored by surviving crew members
May 29, 2000 — — Map (db m211362) HM WM
An electric streetcar line once wound along the cliffs past this very spot. From 1905 to 1925, the line extended nearly 8 miles, carrying passengers from the neighborhoods of San Francisco, through sand dunes and coastal scrub, to Lands End. . . . — — Map (db m107278) HM
Lands End is the wildest, rockiest corner of San Francisco – a corner strewn with shipwrecks and a history of landslides. At the tip of Lands End is Point Lobos. Named by the Spanish for its many lobos marinos (sea wolves), otherwise known as . . . — — Map (db m211359) HM
In Salute
to the Officers and Men, living and dead, of the
U.S.S. “San Francisco”
a warship named for our city, which though sorely wounded, emerged triumphantly from the Battle of Guadalcanal, November 12-13 1942 after . . . — — Map (db m71479) HM
Inspired by San Francisco in 1883
Became the first world organizer of women.
Standing here in 1883 she said
"We are one world of tempted humanity" — — Map (db m18462) HM
Honor-Courage-Commitment These are the remains of the flag bridge of the cruiser USS San Francisco, badly damaged in battle against Japanese naval forces on the night of November 12-13, 1942. The shrapnel-torn holes in her bridge bear . . . — — Map (db m59868) HM
Swift tides, treacherous rocks, dense fog, and a narrow harbor entrance have always made San Francisco’s coast and port difficult to navigate. Over 300 known vessels have failed to make the passage and sank in the cold, treacherous waters.
One . . . — — Map (db m48638) HM
Panel One:
A Human-Shaped Landscape
Lands End looks nothing like it did when the Yelamu lived here. The Yelamu were an independent tribe of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples. After Europeans arrived, the land was grazed over, built upon, . . . — — Map (db m210899) HM
Panel One:
Here at the northwest corner of San Francisco, where the Golden Gate meets the Pacific, the land drops abruptly to the sea. This intersection of ocean currents, raw wind and rocky bluffs offers dramatic views and sunsets – when . . . — — Map (db m211361) HM
Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Deep channels make San Francisco’s protected harbor accessible to immense ships. On the other hand, swift currents, high winds, rocks and fog make navigating the narrow Golden Gate treacherous. Early mariners . . . — — Map (db m211172) HM
Deep channels make San Francisco’s remarkable harbor accessible to immense ships. On the other hand, a narrow entrance, swift currents, high winds, rocks, and fog make navigating the Golden Gate treacherous. Early mariners looked for on-shore . . . — — Map (db m48641) HM
Alson, Aptos, Carquin, Huchiun, Oljon, Tamien, Matsun, Rumsen, Yelamu … these are jst a few of the 50 or so Indian tribes that populated the coastal area from Carquinez Strait to south of Monterey Bay. For at least 10,000 years prior to European . . . — — Map (db m129317) HM
From the native Ohlone and Miwok peoples’ tule reed canoes to today’s immense cargo ships, vessels have plied San Francisco Bay for many centuries.
In 1775, the Spanish ship San Carlos sailed through the Golden Gate to become the . . . — — Map (db m210704) HM
The San Francisco Association of Russian Veterans of World War II dedicated this bench in memory of the soldiers who perished in WWII
(Russian text not transcribed) — — Map (db m195733) WM
In the early 1880s, three miles of sand dunes separated the developed areas of San Francisco from Lands End, where Adolph Sutro was developing popular seaside attractions – Cliff House, the gardens of Sutro Heights, the seven swimming pools at . . . — — Map (db m48714) HM
This monument is erected to commemorate the arrival of the first Japanese naval ship Kanrin Maru in San Francisco Bay on 17 March, 1860. The Kanrin Maru crossed the Pacific at the same time as the U.S.S. Powhatan which brought the . . . — — Map (db m18266) HM
The scene before you is the result of a tectonic collision that went on for millions of years, beginning in the Jurassic period – about 200 million years ago – and ending here about 15 million years ago. During that time the Pacific seafloor . . . — — Map (db m210703) HM
Plaque One:
★ The Honored Dead ★
Arthur V. Adams • Eric J. Anderson • Harvey A. Bockover • Burgess V. Brakel • Lewis T. Brown • Ernest A. Bueren • Daniel J. Callaghan • Neil A. Carlson • William F. Cates • Harold J. . . . — — Map (db m211367) WM
Friday the 13th November 1942
By July 1942 Japan’s military juggernaut had invaded and occupied Korea, Manchuria, China, Hong Kong, Burma, Borneo, New Guinea, Rabaul, Truk, The Philippines, Aleutians, Marshalls, Carolines, and the Solomons, . . . — — Map (db m75499) HM WM
[Main Marker - Mounted on base of the flag pole.]
This memorial to Rear Admiral Daniel Judson Callaghan, U.S.N. and his officers and men who gave their lives for our country, while fighting on board the USS San Francisco in the battle of . . . — — Map (db m59869) HM
You are standing at the western terminus of the Lincoln Highway, the first direct coast-to-coast highway from Times Square in New York City to Lincoln Park in San Francisco. It was conceived in 1912 by Carl Fisher (founder of the Indianapolis . . . — — Map (db m18145) HM
Formerly the popular Blanco's Hotel and Restaurant, Taft Hotel
This building is listed in the
National Register of
Historic Places
Uptown Tenderloin Historic District — — Map (db m91655) HM
French restaurant and “Parlor House”, Blanco's Cafe & Hotel was known as one of San Francisco's popular entertainment spots for the wealthy offering fine food, gambling and fancy women as a house of assignation. The great depression . . . — — Map (db m91654) HM
Dante, "Mr. Baseball" as Joe DiMaggio referred to him. He was a family man. He was a source of love, compassion, understanding, and inspiration. He openly shared those qualities with everyone he met, the look in his eyes, the smile on his face . . . — — Map (db m198390) HM
Welcome to The San Francisco Columbarium.
Built in 1898, the Columbarium is one of the last remaining cemeteries of the City and County of San Francisco. Owned and Operated since 1980 by the Neptune Society of Northern California — — Map (db m82162) HM
On this site the Haight-Fillmore Building was built in 1886, and the DRUGS sign on the corner dates back to this time. This corner remained
a drugstore until September 1977, when Thomas and Helen Lennihan, a stubborn Irish couple, finally
hung . . . — — Map (db m191085) HM
The Channel Watershed was originally comprised of
sand dunes, marshes, and a large bay called Mission
Bay. The waterfront edges of Mission Bay were marked
by Potrero Point, near Pier 70, and Steamboat Point,
which today is the launch point for . . . — — Map (db m191949) HM
Home of Dashiell Hammett and Sam Spade
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) lived in this building from 1926 until 1929, when he wrote his first three novels: Red Harvest (1929), The Dain Curse (1929), and The Maltese Falcon . . . — — Map (db m108316) HM
Daughter of California Pioneers
America’s Genius of Dance
was born on this site.
She created a new art form, liberating the dance as an expression of life. She believed and taught that “no education is complete without the . . . — — Map (db m72365) HM
"A tribute to those Marines who have gone before; and a service to those who carry on."
On 13 March 1946, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, General A.A. Vandegrift,
directed the establishment of a "living memorial” facility in San . . . — — Map (db m186372) HM WM
This Property
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Metropolitan Club
Incorporated in 1915 as the
Woman’s Athletic Club of San Francisco
Bliss & . . . — — Map (db m71912) HM
San Francisco’s firemen were the unsung heroes of 1906. Leaderless because Chief Dennis Sullivan had been fatally injured by the quake, with indomitable courage they battled for three days and nights the flames that were consuming the city. — — Map (db m72079) HM
In 1919, N.Gray & Company commissioned engineer James H. Hjul to construct a two-story, wood-frame building on the southwest corner of Post and Divisadero Streets. A rare example of Georgian Revival architecture in San Francisco, the building at . . . — — Map (db m72485) HM
This ammunition storage structure was erected in the summer of 1863 as part of the U.S. Army's initial development of the Main Post. It was used to securely store rifle ammunition for soldiers quartered in nearby barracks. Fort Point, and the later . . . — — Map (db m176596) HM
"A comfortable Government steamboat plied between San Francisco and its harbor posts … So we had a taste of the social life of that fascinating city, and could enjoy the theaters also." — Martha Summerhayes, Vanished Arizona: . . . — — Map (db m176601) HM
Cast in bronze in 1754 for the French Army, this gun was used by the Spanish and captured by American Forces in Cuba during the Spanish-American War
Emplaced on this site
July 1973
by order of
Col. John L. Fellows Jr.
Commanding . . . — — Map (db m144260) HM
Infantry Row
Presidio San Francisco
Home of the
30th U.S. Infantry Regiment
1901-1941
"San Francisco's Own"
WWI • Valorous In Battle • WWII
Six Campaigns • Ten Campaigns Four Invasions
France • Africa . . . — — Map (db m135939) WM
"The enlisted stratum included the noncommissioned officers [sergeants] and their red-armed wives who were the post’s laundresses, and the broods of unkempt urchins who raced round the big black laundry kettles that bubbled over woodfires in the . . . — — Map (db m176594) HM
In the years between the Civil War (1861-1864(sic)) and the Spanish-American War (1898), the health of the army improved drastically. The new concern for soldiers’ well-being; the emphasis on sanitation, which became realizable in the new . . . — — Map (db m72483) HM
"In the years between the Civil War [1861-64] and the Spanish-American War [1898], the health of the army improved drastically. The new concern for soldiers’ well-being; the emphasis on sanitation, which became realizable in the new buildings . . . — — Map (db m132483) HM
The building to the right was a band barracks, Music kept Army marchers in step, rallied troops in battle, enhanced ceremonies and solemnized burials. Each day at the Presidio began at 6 a.m. with the boom of a cannon and a bugle sounding a rousing . . . — — Map (db m129318) HM
From 1864 until 1899 this building served
as the Presidio's principal medical facility.
This hospital originally consisted of a
kitchen, ten rooms holding about 50 beds,
and a morgue. It was later expanded to
include a surgical wing and a . . . — — Map (db m144302) HM
"Although the post-Civil War era, 1866-98, saw little serious American military action, it was a period of progressive change and innovation that produced the golden age of American military medicine." — The Oxford Companion to . . . — — Map (db m176598) HM
You are standing near what was the northwest corner of the Spanish Presidio (1776). For almost fifty years a walled-in cluster of adobe buildings served as the northernmost outpost of Spain's New World colonies. From this site and the Spanish . . . — — Map (db m176604) HM
Some of the Presidio's highest-ranking officers lived in houses on the site of Pershing Square — until 1915, when disaster struck. On the night of August 27, 1915, fire ravaged the home of Brigadier General John J. Pershing, killing his wife and . . . — — Map (db m176606) HM
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