Events by Decade Archives - Page 11 of 101 -

As posts are published, they will be loaded into the appropriate decade.

NOVEMBER 13, 1854: Five nuns from Sisters of the Presentation arrived in San Francisco from Ireland and opened many schools throughout the City including St. Anne School, part of St. Anne of the Sunset Catholic Church.

In 1854 five nuns from Sisters of the Presentation in Ireland made the arduous journey to San Francisco via New York and through Panama. Their…

NOVEMBER 12, 2010: Armistead Maupin’s 8th novel in the series Tales of the City was published. These books give a snapshot of San Francisco’s LBGTQ community.

Armistead Maupin was raised in a wealthy conservative home in Raleigh, North Carolina. After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill he…