Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
San Francisco: 11-1 7.1378 50 Sutro Tower @ 1664 ft. NBC: ATSC-3 / 4K resolution 11-1 13.3 95 San Bruno Mountain @ 1375 ft. NBC "NBC Bay Area" 11-2 13.4 Cozi TV: 11-3 19.5 500 Mount Allison @ 2306 ft. NBC: KSTS transmitter 11-4 19.6 Cozi TV: KSTS transmitter 11-5 13.7 95 San Bruno Mountain @ 1375 ft. NBC American Crimes: KPJC-LD: Jeff Chang San ...
The Squatters' riot was an uprising and conflict that took place between squatting settlers and the government of Sacramento, California (then an unorganized territory annexed after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo) in August 1850 concerning the lands that John Sutter controlled in the region and the extremely high prices that speculators set for land that they had acquired from Sutter.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... 1850s; 1860s; 1870s; See also: ... San Francisco is incorporated as a city in California.
From March 12th, 1849, to June 4th, 1849, and a Record of the Proceedings of the Ayuntamiento or Town Council of San Francisco, From August 5th, 1849, until May 3d, 1850. With an Appendix. Published by Towne & Bacon, Printers., San Francisco., 1860; The San Francisco Call Database Background by Jim W. Faulkinbury
The TV Archive curates approximately 100 hours of archival footage donated by local film makers and politicians from Northern California. These include the Willie Brown (politician) Collection, which features news reports and programs relating to the former State Assembly Speaker and Mayor of San Francisco's career and the Dorothy Goldner Collection, which features silent, color film of the ...
Those who stayed mostly moved to the Chinatown in San Francisco and a few other cities, where they were relatively safe from violent attacks they suffered elsewhere. From 1850 through 1899, anti-Chinese nativist sentiment resulted in the passage of many laws, many of which remained in effect well into the middle of the 20th century.
There are 58 counties of California currently.. California, the most populous state in the United States and third largest in area after Alaska and Texas, has been the subject of more than 220 proposals to divide it into multiple states since its admission to the Union in 1850, [1] including at least 27 significant proposals prior to the 21st century.
Around 11 pm on the night of May 3, 1851, a fire (possibly arson) broke out in a paint and upholstery store above a hotel on the south side of Portsmouth Square in San Francisco. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Fueled by increasingly high winds, the fire was initially carried down Kearny St. and then, as the winds shifted to the south, into the downtown area ...