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SEPTEMBER 7, 1865: Performer James Cooke walked a tightrope from San Francisco’s Cliff House to Seal Rock just offshore. The Cliff House operated for 157 years, drawing people to its sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean.

SEPTEMBER 7, 1865: Performer James Cooke walked a tightrope from San Francisco’s Cliff House to Seal Rock just offshore. The Cliff House operated for 157 years, drawing people to its sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean.

Located at the northwest corner of San Francisco, the first Cliff House opened on October 15, 1863. Samuel Brannan[1] purchased the lumber from a ship that…

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AUGUST 10, 1893: Chinese immigrants were deported from San Francisco after the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, banning all Chinese immigration into the United States, was extended by Congress.

AUGUST 10, 1893: Chinese immigrants were deported from San Francisco after the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, banning all Chinese immigration into the United States, was extended by Congress.

In 1849, the first Chinese immigrants arrived in the United States. They obtained jobs in the mining camps, and later found work on the transcontinental…

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