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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 "Hills" chapter of Gladys Hansen's San Francisco Almanac [4] repeated the list given in Hills of San Francisco and added the then-recently-named Cathedral Hill for a total of 43, but the "Places" chapter [5] listed many additional hills. More recent lists include more hills, some lesser-known, some not on the mainland, and some without names.
Telegraph Hill, the tower's location, has been described as "the most optimal 360 degree viewing point to the San Francisco Bay and five surrounding counties." [ 7 ] In 1849, it became the site of a two-story observation deck, from which information about incoming ships was broadcast to city residents using an optical semaphore system, replaced ...
Telegraph Hill also called "Falmouth Hill" is the highest point in the Town of Falmouth in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. It is located south of West Falmouth. Swifts Hill is located south-southwest of Telegraph Hill.
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 ...
Telegraph Hill is a hill in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. [1] It is located in the West End neighborhood of Provincetown. The Long Point Light Station is located east-southeast of Telegraph Hill, across the southern part of Provincetown Harbor.
A telegraph hill is a hill or other natural elevation that is chosen as part of an optical telegraph system. Telegraph Hill may also refer to: England A high ...
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