NO. 327-1 SITE OF ORIGINAL MISSION DOLORES CHAPEL AND DOLORES LAGOON -
On
June 29, 1776, Father Fancisco Palou, a member of the Anza Expedition, had
a
brushwood shelter built here on the edge of a now
vanished lake,
Lago de
los Dolores (Lake of the Sorrows), and offered the first mass. The first
mission was a log and
thatch structure
dedicated on October 9, 1776 when the necessary church documents arrived.
The present Mission Dolores was dedicated in 1791.
Location: Site: Camp and
Albion Sts,
San Francisco (
plaque in storage)
NO. 462 SITE OF FIRST JEWISH RELIGIOUS SERVICES IN SAN FRANCISCO In a
second-floor room in a store that once stood here, forty pioneers of the
Jewish faith gathered
on September 26, 1849,
Yom Kippur (5610), and participated in the first
Jewish religious services in San Francisco.
Location: 735 Montgomery between Washington and Jackson, San Francisco
NO. 408 SITE OF THE FIRST MEETING OF FREEMASONS HELD IN CALIFORNIA -
On
November 9, 1849, a charter was granted by the
Grand Lodge of the District
of Columbia
for the organization of California
Lodge No. 13, now California Lodge No.
1 of the
Free and Accepted Masons. On November 23, 1848, Levi Stowell was
appointed master of the new lodge, and
on November 15, 1849, the lodge was formally organized under the charter.
Location: 728
Montgomery St, San Francisco
NO. 760 SITE OF LAUREL HILL CEMETERY -
The
builders of the West, civic
and
military leaders,
jurists,
inventors,
artists, and
eleven United
States Senators are
buried here, on
the most revered of San Francisco's hills.
Location: 3333 California St at Walnut, San Francisco
NO. 937 SITE OF INVENTION OF THE THREE-REEL BELL SLOT MACHINE -
Charles
August Fey invented the first
coin-operated, three-reel slot machine in
San Francisco in
1895.
Fey continued to manufacture the popular 'Liberty Bell' gaming
devices in a workshop located at 406 Market Street from 1897 to 1906,
until the workshop was
destroyed by the 1906
earthquake and fire. The
international popularity of the bell slot
machines attested to Fey's
ingenuity as an enterprising inventor whose
basic design continues to be used in
mechanical gaming
devices today.
Location: Traffic island on N side of Market St between
Bush and
Battery
Sts, San Francisco