NOVEMBER 16, 1875: Jasper O’Farrell died in San Francisco. He was responsible for designing the City’s “grand promenade” that would become Market Street and the cornerstone of the City’s Financial District.

NOVEMBER 16, 1875: Jasper O’Farrell died in San Francisco. He was responsible for designing the City’s “grand promenade” that would become Market Street and the cornerstone of the City’s Financial District.

San Francisco’s original eastern shoreline did not look as it does today. In 1835 the area consisted of a cove and was the site of…

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OCTOBER 30, 1857: Gertrude Francis Horn was born in San Francisco. She became a renowned author, but is also remembered for being an irritating ghost.

OCTOBER 30, 1857: Gertrude Francis Horn was born in San Francisco. She became a renowned author, but is also remembered for being an irritating ghost.

In honor of Halloween – a haunted house. Gertrude Francis Horn was born in San Francisco in 1857. Her parents separated when she was two…

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