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The history of the city of San Francisco, California, and its development as a center of maritime trade, were shaped by its location at the entrance to a large natural harbor. San Francisco is the name of both the city and the county; the two share the same boundaries.
St. Francis hotel built. [1] Boudin Bakery, Olympic Amphitheatre, [3] and Union Iron Works [4] in business. West Indian Benevolent Association established. [5] 1850. April 15: City of San Francisco incorporated. [6][2] May 1: John W. Geary becomes mayor. October 29: San Francisco becomes part of the new U.S. State of California.
San Francisco, [24] officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California.With a population of 808,988 residents as of 2023, [16] San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of California behind Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose.
In 1967, the city of San Francisco, California, adopted Article 10 of the Planning Code, providing the city with the authority to designate and protect landmarks from inappropriate alterations. As of June 2024, the city had designated 318 structures or other properties as San Francisco Designated Landmarks. [ 1 ]
San Francisco City Hall. San Francisco City Hall is the seat of government for the City and County of San Francisco, California.Re-opened in 1915 in its open space area in the city's Civic Center, it is a Beaux-Arts monument to the City Beautiful movement that epitomized the high-minded American Renaissance of the 1880s to 1917.
October 10, 1975. (#75000179) Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, 2905 Hyde Street. 37°48′37″N 122°25′22″W / 37.8103°N 122.4227°W / 37.8103; -122.4227 (ALMA (Scow Schooner)) Fisherman's Wharf. Flat-bottomed scow schooner built in 1891 to haul goods on and around San Francisco Bay and ...
The San Francisco Historical Society was founded in 1988 by historian Charles A. Fracchia. [1]In February 2002, the San Francisco Historical Society merged with the Museum of the City of San Francisco to create the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society, [2] which the San Francisco municipal government recognized as the official historical museum of San Francisco. [3]
William Alexander Leidesdorff Jr. (1810 – May 18, 1848) was an African-American settler in California and one of the founders of the city that became San Francisco. A highly successful, enterprising businessman, he is thought to have been the first black millionaire in the United States.