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A map on SFGate depicts the Chinatown, North Beach, and Telegraph Hill areas as bounded by Sacramento Street, Taylor Street, Bay Street, and the San Francisco Bay. [6]The neighborhood is bounded by Vallejo Street to the south, Sansome Street to the east, Francisco Street to the north and Powell Street and Columbus Avenue to the west, where the northwestern corner of Telegraph Hill overlaps ...
The timeline of North American telegraphy is a chronology of notable events in the history of the electric telegraphy in the United States and Canada, including the rapid spread of telegraphic communications starting from 1844 and completion of the first transcontinental telegraph line in 1861.
St Catherine's Church was built in 1893 on the summit of Telegraph Hill. [7] Designed by the surveyor to the Haberdashers Company as part of their development of the area around Telegraph Hill, it was destroyed by fire on 6 May 1913, allegedly arson by suffragettes, and rebuilt “with a larger chancel” by Stock, Page & Stock (i.e. the present church, although that was badly damaged in World ...
Pioneer Park is a 4.89-acre (19,800 m 2) park crowning the top of Telegraph Hill in San Francisco.It was established in 1876 in celebration of the United States Centennial. Prior to establishment of the park, it was the site of the Marine Telegraph Stati
Julius' Castle is a castle-shaped building that sits at 1541 Montgomery Street on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. It served as a visual landmark and as a restaurant for many years, originally opening between 1924 and 1928. Since 1980, the building has been listed as a San Francisco Landmark Number 121. [2]
Coit was one of the more eccentric characters in the history of North Beach and Telegraph Hill, smoking cigars and wearing trousers long before it was socially acceptable for women to do so. She was an avid gambler and often dressed like a man in order to gamble in the males-only establishments that dotted North Beach.
Herman also completed the final removal of the produce district below Telegraph Hill, moving the produce merchants to the Alemany Boulevard site. His planning led to the creation of Embarcadero Center , the Embarcadero Freeway , Japantown , the Geary Street superblocks, and eventually Yerba Buena Gardens .
A hill in the Chalk Downs of Hamphire; Telegraph Hill, Hertfordshire, a nature reserve; Telegraph Hill (ward), an electoral ward in Lewisham, London; Telegraph Hill, Barnet, in Childs Hill, a ward of the London Borough of Barnet; Telegraph Hill, Lewisham, a conservation area in London; Telegraph Hill in Claygate, a suburban village in Surrey