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That agency was eliminated in 2002/03 due to a budget crisis. In 2004 the California Main Street Program was re-established within the Office of Historic Preservation. [11] Designated Programs. Bellflower, City of Bellflower; Benicia, Benicia Main Street; Brentwood, Downtown Brentwood; Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Cardiff 101 Main Street
The historic park is located at 115 West G Street in Benicia, a city in the northern San Francisco Bay Area between San Pablo Bay and Suisun Bay. On February 16, 2000, the California State Legislature met in the old Capitol in a symbolic session to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Legislature's first meeting.
The original campus of Mills College was founded in Benicia in 1852 as the Young Ladies Seminary, and was the first women's college west of the Rocky Mountains. Before moving to Oakland in 1871, it was located on West I Street, just north of First Street. From 1860 to 1861, Benicia was indirectly involved in the Pony Express.
A historical marker is next to the Fischer-Hanlon House, at 135 W G Street, Benicia, next to the Benicia Capitol Building. The marker was placed there by California State Parks working with the Solano County Historical Society on September 9, 1976. [4] [5]
Benicia Seminary was founded by a Board of Trustees in June 1852, as the Young Ladies' Seminary of Benicia in Solano County, California in the city of Benicia, California. The Benicia Seminary site is a California Historical Landmark No. 795 listed on September 6, 1964.
The building had a half set basement and was located at 300 York Street, Vallejo. General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1807-1890) offered the site to the State after the wooden Sacramento California State Capitol building in the Sacramento First Courthouse burnt to the ground in large fire on July 13, 1854.
Benicia: First Presbyterian Church of Benicia: 175: First Presbyterian Church of Benicia: Benicia City Park: Benicia: Site is now Benicia City Park, on K Street. First U.S. Naval Station in the Pacific: 751
The church was founded on September 24, 1854 170 years ago, by Major F. D. Townsend, with the US Army in the Benicia Sate Capital Building. [1] [2] A historical marker is at Saint Paul's Episcopal Church of Benicia. The marker was placed there by The Historic Landmarks Committee, Grand Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West.