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The City of Corona is located approximately 45 miles southeast of Los
Angeles in western Riverside County. The community is ideally situated
at the base of the mountainous Cleveland National Forest on an alluvial
plain leading down or north to the Santa Ana River. In 1996 the city
population will reach over 100,000 and the city limits cover
approximately 32.83 square miles, and this grows continuously through
annexations. The mean temperature in January has averaged 51.6 degrees,
and in July 74.8 degrees. Rainfall averages 2.71 inches in January and
.01 in July. Corona is a General Law City. Five Corona citizens make up
the Corona City Council and each is elected to a four year term of
office.
Historically, the area has many significant features. The
Luiseño Indians, the site of the first Spanish family to settle in
Riverside County, the Temescal Tin Mines, and some of the best clay and
mineral deposits in the United States are located here. Also, the
renowned circular Grand Boulevard where three international road racing
events took place in 1913, 1914 and 1916. The first lemon processing
plant in the country was built here in 1915 and the world's largest
cheese plant was opened on Lincoln Avenue in 1985 where the Desi Arnaz
horse ranch had once stood.
The local Luiseño Indians were known as hunters and gatherers. They
hunted for such animals as black bear, snakes, rodents, coyote,
rabbits, birds and fish. They made straw baskets from wild grasses,
constructed clay containers and gathered acorns, seeds, wild berries
and roots for food. These Native Americans were very clean, and used
the hot waters in the Temescal Canyon to bathe on a daily basis and as
part of their religious ceremonies. (Current residents and visitors
still enjoy the rejuvenating mud baths and hot springs at the Glen Ivy
resort.) Luiseño religious ceremonies were strictly followed and
remnants of some of their artistic pictographs and petroglyphs can
still be found on some of the rocks in the undeveloped areas.
These Indian tribes came under the influence of the
Spanish settlers at the Mission San Luis Rey, and they were given the
name Luiseño. As Spanish settlement progressed inland, the land soon
was taken over by Spanish ranchos. Sheep and cattle dotted the hills
from ranchos run by the Serrano, Cot, Sepulveda and Botiller families.
Remnants of the Serrano tanning vats are still found on Old Temescal
Canyon Road. This is also the route that was taken by the Butterfield
Stage Route that brought many Americans to California along the
southern route between 1858 and 1861. Plaques marking the sites of
Indian petroglyphs, the Butterfield Stage stops and the Serrano adobes
are still found along this road.
In 1886, developer Robert Taylor persuaded his partners,
Rimpau, Joy, Garretson and Merrill to form the South Riverside Land and
Water Company. Together they raised approximately $110,000 to purchase
approximately 12,000 acres of good agricultural land. Taylor realized
the importance of water for the soon to be developed community, and
additional funds were used to ensure that sufficient water rights were
obtained. Taylor hired Anaheim engineer H. C. Kellogg to design a
circular Grand Boulevard three miles round. Early residents used to
parade their fancy buggies on this circular street that enclosed the
main functions of the community: schools, churches, residences and
stores. To the north along the railroad tracks were the manufacturing
plants and packing houses. The southern end of town was left to the
citrus industry, and the mining companies were established just outside
the city's southeastern and eastern city limits.
The town's founders initially named their development South Riverside
after the successful citrus community of Riverside, just a few miles
away. Almost all of the new settlers planted orange and lemon trees in
hopes of gaining future profits. New groves continued to spring up and
by 1912 there were 5,000 acres of established lemon and orange groves.
By 1913 Corona shipped more fruit than any other town in Southern
California. In 1961 citrus was still considered the backbone of
Corona's economy, and the largest source of revenue. In that year
citrus covered 7500 acres. The labor force fluctuated between 400 and
1800 workers at the peak of the harvest. An additional 500 people
worked at the Exchange Lemon Products plant. By 1982 Corona's
agricultural industry faced a bleak future as "production costs made
the economics of farming only fair or poor." Plans were begun to
replace the groves with approximately 12,500 dwelling units.
Since Corona's 1900 population of 1434, there have been numerous
changes. On July 13, 1896 residents voted to incorporate and change the
name of the community to Corona, which is Spanish for crown, in honor
of the City's circular Grand Boulevard. On September 9, 1913, in
observance of California's Admissions Day, Corona residents celebrated
with an international automobile race on the Boulevard. The event
attracted such auto racing greats of Ralph De Palma, Barney Oldfield,
Terrible Teddy Tetzlaff and Earl Cooper. More than 100,000 people came
to the town of 4,000 to watch Cooper win the race and a prize of
$8,250. It was so successful that races were held again in 1914 and
1916. The demise of the road races were due not only to the tragic
deaths which occurred in 1916, but because of the cost and local effort
needed to stage such an extravagant event.
During the teens and twenties, Corona citizens built
numerous churches, a library and a new city hall. By 1915 the
production of lemons was exceeding national demand, and local
businessmen worked together to form the first Lemon Exchange
By-Products Company in the United States. Located on Joy and the
railroad tracks, this co-operative was eventually bought out by
Sunkist. In 1954 they employed over 700 people and marketed a variety
of lemon products for worldwide disbursement. The plant produced citric
acid, lemon oil, lemon juice and pectin which helped Corona gain the
nickname "Lemon Capital of the world." As housing developments began to
overtake the Southern California citrus orchards, Sunkist found that
the lack of a local supply was forcing them to move. They closed the
Corona plant in 1982.
Mining has always played a secondary but vital role to
the more prominent citrus industry. Now that citrus has declined and
the mines remain, they have again become a focal point in Corona
industry. Historically this area is known for having the only
productive tin mine in the country, and it produced tin until 1893.
Other more successful mining ventures included the Minnesota Mining and
Manufacturing Company (previously Blue Diamond mine,) the Pacific Clay
Company (organized in 1886,) Redlands Clay Tile, Maruhachi Ceramics,
Monier Roof Tile and U.S. Tile. By 1954 the city had more than 11,000
inhabitants and was home to such industries as the Corona Clipper
Company, Liston Brick Company, Borden Food Products and Tillotsen
Refractories. The only oil wells in Riverside County were located in
this area.
Agriculture has always played a significant role in
Corona's history. The land to the northwest was more suitable for
alfalfa, grin, sugar beets, tomatoes, beans, walnuts and dairy land as
far back as 1914. In the 1930s the average dairy consisted of 5-10
acres with 35 to 70 cows. By 1982 operations had become highly
mechanized with almost 500 cows per 60 to 200 acres. With increased
development the future of agricultural pursuits within the city limits
is significantly decreasing.
As Southern California began to grow, so did Corona. The
Riverside Freeway (Highway 91) was constructed through Corona in 1962.
Downtown Corona went through urban renewal in the late 60s and 70s,
razing the old and putting in a new downtown. By 1989, the I-15went in
to the east of town, and development of Sierra del Oro, Corona Hills
and South Corona were in full gear. New commercial developments began
opening on Lincoln Avenue, McKinley Avenue and in Sierra del Oro. Price
Club, Walmart, and the new auto mall became important parts of the
city's revitalization. In June 1993 the City opened the newly redone
Corona Public Library at 650 South Main Street with 62,300 square feet
of space and the addition of new automated technologies. Additional
plans for revitalizing downtown was addressed at an October 1995
community Charette. By 1996 Corona's population had topped 100,000
people, there were 32 Corona parks, a Senior Center, gymnasium and 30
schools in th Corona Norco Unified School District. The City also
celebrated the Centennial of the City's Incorporation with numerous
events, parades, picnics, banquets and ceremonial dedications to mark
the City of Corona's 100th birthday.
The City of Corona has a remarkable and unique history.
In order to collect and preserve information about the community, the
City of Corona opened a Heritage Room at the Corona Public Library in
November 1980. Library staff and volunteers from the community and the
Heritage Committee work to collect, organize, display and preserve
materials relevant to the history of the city and immediate environs.
Collected items on display in the library's mezzanine and available for
research in the Heritage Room include maps, photographs, original
documents, artifacts, oral histories, videos and books. The 2,400
square foot Heritage Room is open M-Th, noon to 8 pm, Fri and Sat, 10
am to 4 pm, Sunday closed. For additional information please call (951)
736-2386.
There are great stories and accounts about the man who founded the City
of Corona, his third city-building endeavor before the turn of the
century. Everything he touched seemed to turn to gold, blossom and
flourish. He had incredible timing, and in some cases the good fortune
to have luck on his side. What follows here are true stories about the
many incidences that made him a legend, even in his own time. South American Gold & Near Arrest!
(Written by R. B. Taylor)
1898 January I made a trip alone to South America to see what the
prospects were for business and to examine some gold mine property. On
my return I stopped at Havanna (sic) in Cuba which then belonged to
Spain but I had not seen any papers from United States and so knew
nothing about the trouble between the United States and Spain. I
arrived in Havanna on April 2 and soon found out that it was too hot
for Americans. So, on April 4 to save my life I boarded an english ship
going to the United States. Three Spanish officers came to the ship to
arrest me as a spy but the Captain told them that I was same as
on(board), English and refused to allow my arrest - so, I got home by
way of New Orleans. Fourteen days later, war was declared on Spain
April 18.
Of Wanderlust, Sitting Bull & Lost Millions (R. B. Taylor)
The history of the Taylor families from the Colonial days of 1776 to
date shows that they were never satisfied remaining in one place for a
life time. But I will only speak of the last generation of my father's
Uncle John Taylor spent many years in the Sitting Bull Indian Country
of the North as a trapper of fur bearing animals and he was a dead shot
with the rifle and revolver and had a few Indian scalps to his credit.
Sitting Bull, the Indian Chief, tryed (sic) to get him but failed and
he came home to die.
My father's brother when quite a young man went to
Australia and lived there many years to his death and never married and
left a fortune of value of near two million dollars but father had no
notice of his death for nearly four years after his death and the law
there provides that estates not claimed within two years -- it goes to
the Government.
Paid Three Bucks an Acre and Called a Fool (Account by Frank Rolfe)
In 1882 Mr. Taylor learned through a friend, A. S. Garretson, cashier
of the Sioux National Bank, of Sioux City, Iowa, that a new railroad
was about to be built on the Nebraska side of the Missouri River, which
would pass through Wayne county to Norfolk, Neb., and that a new
townsite to be called Wayne was being laid out about six miles west of
the county seat, Laport. At this time the settlement of the county --
some 225 population -- was located in and about Laport.
In January, 1882, Mr. Taylor drove a team to Sioux City,
crossed the river and continued on to Laport and beyond to the new
townsite. After looking over the country he decided that the rich
prairies about Wayne must make it a good farming section. He returned
to Ida Grove and explained the inducements of this new country to his
father and partner. Mr. McHugh, however, decided to remain in Ida
Grove. Mr. James Taylor, the father, who had recently lost his wife,
decided to join his son, and from that time until his death, in Corona,
he remained a member of his son's family.
Returning to Wayne, Mr. R. B. Taylor secured the names
and addresses of the land-owners in and about Wayne townsite and
succeeded in buying about sixteen hundred acres at an average price of
about $3.00 per acre. In March he sent teams with lumber and hardware
ahead to the location and followed himself with a good team, spring
wagon, two carpenters and a camping outfit and supplies. He arrived at
the townsite in a big blizzard, put up a tent for the horses, spread a
canvas over the wagons, under which he and his men slept and ate until
a building was completed. This was the first house built in Wayne,
Nebraska.
At this point in the interview Mr. Taylor related a
little incident occurring while he was erecting his office. Late one
evening while his carpenters were on the roof and he himself on the
ground handing material to the men, two men in a buggy drove up and
stopped and inquired, "Who is doing this building?"
"Oh, some fellow from the east," Mr. Taylor replied.
They then wanted to know for what it was intended. When told that the
party expected to go into the real estate business and also to start a
bank, one of them remarked that the builder was either a big fool, or
else he had a lot of nerve to start out in any business where there was
only the prospect of a railroad and not another building in sight. At
this point Mr. Taylor left them to prepare supper for his carpenters,
as it was quitting time.
As the men came down from the roof, the newcomers asked
who was the owner of the building. Not knowing of the previous
conversation, they answered, "That fellow over there, cooking supper."
The visitors came over, then, to apologize for their
remarks. Mr. Taylor told them that what they had said might prove true,
and insisted that they should stay in his camp until morning, as a big
storm was showing in the northwest. During the evening one of the
strangers asked Mr. Taylor if he would sell 160 acres of his Wayne
lands. When Mr. Taylor told him that he might have 160 acres about a
mile from the townsite for $7.50 an acre, the party answered at once,
"I'll take it. Send the deed to my bank at Omaha; I want to buy
something from a man who has the nerve to start a town in this lonely
spot."
Mr. Taylor advised the new purchaser to hold on to the
land for four years and he would probably be able to sell it for
$100.00 an acre. The buyer agreed and before the expiration of the four
years refused the price named -- an example of the foresight which has
been one of Mr. Taylor's best assets.
Chronological History of California
25,000- 10,000 BP - Peoples of north-east Asia followed herds of Caribou, bison, and mammoth across the present day Bering Strait. Then moved south along ice-free corridors into the American continents.
12,500 BP - Santa Barbara Channel Islands were settled; fire-reddened earth from more than a hundred fire sites date from this period.
10,000 BP - Local population of dwarf mammoth went extinct; teeth found charred by fire.
9,000 BP - In 1914, the remains of a young woman were uncovered at the Rancho La Brea tar pits, the only prehistoric human remains found at the site. Her skull and partial skeleton is preserved in The Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits. Also the likely date of Los Angeles Man, excavated in 1936. The mineralized cranium of his skull was discovered in the Ballona Creek in West Los Angeles (cf. Altschul et al., 1992).
8,000 BP - Settlement of the Southern California Coast by Chumash. A village in Glen Annie carbondated to 7,300 BP.
5,000 BP - Settled villages near estuaries, with large middens.
2,000 BP - Very large coastal villages; fewer people in the interior and on the islands. Evidence of alliances and warfare.
200-500 AD - Continental drought provokes wide-ranging migrations. The Tongva, or Gabrielinos, who speak Shoson, a Uto-Aztec language, come down from the Mojave and settle in the Los Angeles basin, displacing the Hokan speakers, relatives of the Chumash.
458 - Chineses records speak of the explorer Hui Shan, who in 458 A.D. sailed the Pacific and may have reached the coast of California. Hui Shan noted tall trees with a red wood.
16th century
1510 - California is first used in a romance novel published in Spain 1510 and written by Garcia Ordoñez de Montalvo, the translator of the Amadis de Gaul, and called Las Sergas de Esplandián, or "Adventures of Esplandian".
1533 - Two ships make their way northward from Tehuantepec and land at the very tip of Baja California at La Paz Harbor. Local residents kill 20 of the landing party and the ships retreat. For details of the early explorers, see Tales of Ocean Exploration
1535 - Hernando Cortés leads a return expedition to La Paz and plants a small colony there. It fails after a couple of years and the settlers return to the mainland.
1539 - Francisco de Ulloa explores the gulf of California; he also rounds the tip of Baja and explores up its western coast.
1540 - Antonio de Mendoza, Viceroy of New Spain, sends a second sea expedition under Hernando de Alarcon up the Gulf of California where they enter the mouth of the Colorado River and become the first Europeans to stand on California soil. See also the overland expeditions of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
1542 - The Portuguese-born sailor, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, became the first European to explore California, landing at San Diego on September 28. He went on to discover the Catalina Islands, the sites of San Pedro and Santa Monica and the Santa Barbara Channel Islands.
Sep. 28 - Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, on the authority of the Viceroy of New Spain, sails up the coast of California in the San Salvador, stepping onshore at the present-day harbor of San Diego (the official "discovery" of California).
Oct. 7 - Pimungans of Santa Catalina Island paddle out to greet the Spanish galleon; they were invited aboard ship and gifts were exchanged. Cabrillo claimed the island for the King of Spain and gave it the name San Salvador, after his ship.
November - Cabrillo lands on San Miguel island in the Santa Barbara Channel . The sailors get into a fight with the inhabitants -- no word on casualties, but Cabrillo is noted as having broken a leg. The party continues to sail north almost to present day Fort Ross, 42°N. At Morro Bay, they spot the 534 foot rock.
Nov. 22 - New laws passed in Spain aimed at giving native populations of New Spain some protection against enslavement.
1545 - A typhus epidemic kills hundreds of thousands of natives and some colonists in Cuba and New Spain -- one of the first of a continued series of European-borne diseases that decimated the native populations.
1579 - Sir Francis Drake landed north of San Francisco Bay and claimed the territory for England.
17th century
1602 - Sebastibn VizcaNno, another Spaniard, explored the coast and Monterey Bay
1665 - José de Gálvez arrives in Mexico as Visitor General of New Spain. Periodically insane—thinks he is God, Montezuma, or the King of Sweden—he lauches an ambitious program of colonizing Alta California, implemented by his emissary, Padre Junipero Serra.
1669 -
Gaspar de Portolb, governor of the Californias, led an expedition up the Pacific coast and established a colony and California's first mission on San Diego Bay. He later established a presidio at Monterey, which became the capital of Alta California.
The entrance to San Francisco Bay, La Boca del Puerto (The mouth of the Port) is discovered on November 1 by Sergeant Jose Ortega.
San Diego De Alcala, the first of 21 missions established by Franciscan padres under the leadership of Father Junipero Serra, was founded. The missions extend along a 650-mile trail, the El Camino Real, from San Diego to Sonoma.
Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portola (1723-86) led expedition from Mexico to establish settlements in Alta California; he arrived in San Diego June 29; on July 14, Portola's party discovered Monterey Bay; on November 2, San Francisco Bay. As commander, Portola served as Alta California's governor from March 1769 to July 1770.
1776 - The first colonizing party arrived to found the Presidio of San Francisco and Mission Dolores. La Misión de San Francisco de Asis (Mission Dolores) is designated as Registered Landmark Number One of the City and County of San Francisco. The Mission Church is the oldest intact building in San Francisco, and one of the oldest Mission Churches in California. The first mass celebrated at the Mission was on June 29, 1776 (5 days before the signing of the Declaration of Independence). Mission Dolores was the sixth of 21 missions established by the Franciscans. Mission Dolores established.
19th century
Late 1800's - The trans-continental railroad system was established with funding from the "Big Four," a group of men whose economic influence helped shape California's industrial industry--Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins, Collis P. Huntington, and Leland Stanford. The system included tracks throughout California's Sierra Nevada region as well as connecting New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Mexico, Utah, and Nevada for mining and travel opportunities.
1812 - Russian fur traders established Fort Ross, north of San Francisco
1820 - Early in the nineteenth century, ships from Boston began to visit the Spanish towns and Missions along the upper and lower California coast. They came first to barter for both otter and beaver pelts; later for tallow, hides, and materials used by the natives and settlers. In the 1820s American trappers and hunters began to drift into the State from the East. These early pioneers of the West were sometimes harshly treated by the earlier Spanish governors, later they were welcomed; but they had to show passports and submit to surveillance. Later, some new arrivals married the daughters of wealthy Mexican ranchers, and took up large land grants. --From the 1820s to the Gold Rush
1821 -
Mexico wins its independence from Spain, becoming California's new ruler.
The Russian trading post, Fort Ross, was completed near Bodega Bay, enabling the Russians to further explore the northern California coast as they continued hunting for fur seals and sea otters.
1826 -
Father Jose Altimira, sent from Spain in 1819, engaged in constant flogging and imprisonment of the Native Americans at the Mission San Francisco Solano, and his efforts to "civilize" them soon caused a revolt. Group of angry Native Americans attacked the mission in 1826. After looting and burning buildings and supplies, they forced Father Altimira to flee to Mission San Rafael.
Jedediah Strong Smith and other trappers made the first U.S. overland trip to the area.
1846 - The United States invades Mexico from the east, reaching San Diego in December. See The Mexican-American War .
On July 31, 1846, a weary company of about 220 Latter-day Saints passed through the rocky portals of the Golden Gate, anticipating the end of a difficult six-month voyage which took them around the southern tip of South America
On July 9, 1846 Commander J. B. Montgomery raised the American Frag
James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's sawmill in Coloma in January 1848, along the south fork of the American River, thus kicking off the famous Gold Rush of 1849 from whence the term "49ers" was coined.
California became a U.S. holding with the Treaty of Guadalupe, which ended the Mexican War.
1849 - The city catches on fire, after Sydney Ducks allegedly burn down the abode of a merchant who refuses to pay them protection money
1850 - California was admitted into the Union as the 31st state on September 9, 1850.
1851 - On June 9, 1851, at Sydney cove, John Jenkins walked deliberately into a merchants store, picked up the small safe, carried it to a boat at a nearby wharf and coolly rowed out into the bay. The alarm was given, and a number of merchants pursued an overtook the man... --The 1851 Committee of Vigilance
Following the cleanup of crime by the 1856 Committee of Vigilance came a stimulating improvement in business and prospects, and it was on June 11, 1856, that the City and County of San Francisco was formed, and a new county called "San Mateo" was created out of the remainder of the old County of San Francisco.
What a strange town was that, the San Francisco of 1856, its 30,000 people in speedy transition from a city of tents and shacks to one of brick and stone buildings. --San Francisco in 1856 [SF Museum]
James King of William, editor of the Evening Bulletin, is shot and killed by James Casey.
1858 - Sutro & Co.Founded in San Francisco by Gustav, Charles, and Emil Sutro. The company is the oldest investment banking firm in San Francisco.
1859 -At the pre-emptory request of a large majority of the citizens of these United States, I Joshua Norton, formerly of Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, and now for the last nine years and ten months past of San Fransisco, California, declare and proclaim myself the Emperor of These United States. - Joshua A. Norton, September 17, 1859
1860
California's famous mail courier service, the Pony Express, followed a route which began in Missouri and ended in Sacramento, California. The trips, lasting more than ten days depending on weather conditions, were the first of a kind connecting California's communication system with the Midwest. Riders changed mounts at postal stations which were 15 miles apart. The fastest delivery was a trip in six days, delivering the news of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination.
In 1860 the "Pioche Railroad" was started by the Market Street Railway Company, which graded Market Street. This road at first was operated by steam dummies, later by means of horses. --Market Street Railway Company, Past, Present and Future
1861 - Fort Point completed. Built to protect San Francisco from some one who never came. The fort was never fired on nor did it ever have to defend the Gate.
1868 -
On a spring day in 1868, banker James Sloan Hutchinson stepped in to stop two horsemen who were dragging a squealing boar off to market along the street's rough cobblestones. The incident moved Hutchinson to call together a group of fellow humanitarians to found The San Francisco SPCA.
"We propose to publish a bold, bright, fearless and truly independent newspaper, independent in all things, neutral in nothing." With this emphatic statement of purpose, Charles and M.H. de Young, two brothers barely twenty years old, launched The Daily Morning Chronicle in 1868. It was just three years since they had borrowed a $20 gold piece to start The Daily Dramatic Chronicle, little more than a theater program and gossip sheet handed out at hotels, theaters, restaurants and saloons. Yet, after only three months of operations, the fledgling paper had scooped all other city dailies with an "extra" on Lincoln's assassination. --Voice of the West
1869 - September 6 - The first westbound train arrives in San Francisco.
1870 - By 1870 San Francisco had become the tenth largest city in the United States.
1878 - The American Speaking Telephone Company in San Francisco issues its first list of subscribers on a single sheet
1880 -
January 8 - Emperor Norton drops dead on California St. Between 10,000 and 30,000 people were reported to have attended his funeral. Le Roi Est Mort
In 1880, George Hearst accepted a small daily newspaper, the San Francisco Examiner, as payment for a gambling debt. The elder Hearst, now a U.S. senator from California, had little interest in the newspaper business as such, but the event proved pivotal for his son. In the mid-1880s, young Will, a Harvard student at the time, wrote his father a now-famous letter requesting that he be permitted to take over the Examiner: -- William Randolph Hearst
1882- In the 1840s and 1850s, Chinese laborers were recruited to build the railroads, work the mines, and tend the fields of a growing, prosperous America. By the 1870s, with the motherlode running dry and the economy turning shaky, anti-Chinese sentiment swelled. In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, barring all Chinese immigration--a law that was not repealed for more than sixty years.
1883 - "Black Bart", a gentleman bandit who has been robbing Wells Fargo stages throughout northern California, turns out to be respectable bank clerk Charles Bolton.
1891 - San Francisco, Dec. 28 -- The steamer Arago, which arrived here from the north today had one of the roughest voyages of the season. On her last trip she encountered heavy storms and had to be thoroughly overhauled and repaired.
1892 - Sierra Club is founded by 182 charter members. John Muir is elected president. In its first conservation effort, the Sierra Club leads campaign to defeat a proposed reduction in the boundaries of Yosemite National Park. --Sierra Club--A Proud History
1898
November 19 - American Anti-Imperialist League founded. Created to protest the annexation of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War, the Anti-Imperialist League was the first national anti-imperialist organization formed in the United States. 1898-1998 Centennial of the Spanish-American War
Ferry Building built. Ferry transit has played a significant role in San Francisco Bay for almost 150 years. Vessels which brought people during gold rush days were utilized for San Francisco-Sacramento and cross-bay service. Eclipsed by highway and bridge construction during the 1930's, a faster generation of ferries are once more becoming valuable cross-bay connectors offering alternatives to congestion in some corridors, and as emergency alternatives to these same highways and bridges.
McKinley assassinated - Roosevelt succeeds McK. - Picasso's Blue Period - J.P. Morgan organizes US Steel Corporation
1902 - Trans-Pacific telephone cable connects Canada and Australia.
1903 - The Commonwealth Club of California was founded in 1903 by San Francisco Chronicle editorial writer Edward F. Adams.
1905 -
One of the wonderful aspects of the turn-of-the-century era was the multitude of grandious schemes for the development of California. In the early 1900's, the country had rebounded from the depression of the 1890's, so a renewed sense of optimism was the mood of the day. It was in this frame of mind that prominent San Francisco businessmen schemed to create a coast railroad from San Francisco to Santa Cruz. It was initially called the Ocean Shore Electric Railway. Initial work began in 1905.
The San Francisco Chronicle launches a series which accuses Japanese immigrants of debauching white women, deliberately undermining the school system, and causing crime and poverty in California. The series inspires the founding of The Japanese and Korean Exclusion League with 80,000 members.
1907 -In the first decade of the twentieth century, organized labor in San Francisco exercised "more power and influence than labor in any other major American metropolitan area." The year 1901 saw the formation of the Union Labor Party (ULP), a political party which ostensibly represented the interests of the city's workingmen... At this time, with the city considered a "closed shop" town and labor firmly in control of its political machinery, circumstances began to change. Between 1905 and the street railway strike of May 1907, an earthquake, charges of corruption against the mayor and almost all the supervisors, and a struggle for political control between local reform elements and controlling labor interests changed San Francisco politics.
1908 - The FBI originated from a force of Special Agents created in 1908 by Attorney General Charles Bonaparte during the Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt.
1909 - John Muir (1838-1914) was the leader of the movement to save the Hetch Hetchy Valley from despoliation at the hands of the City and County of San Francisco, which wanted the valley for a municipal water supply... Published in late 1909, outlines the preservationist's cause, and was distributed by Muir acting as president of the Society for the Preservation of National Parks... --John Muir - Let Everyone Help to Save the Famous Hetch-Hetchy Valley
1910 - Angel Island opened in 1910. For 30 years, Angel Island served as a point of entry to the United States for many immigrants. Like Ellis Island in New York, it processed the entry of people from different parts of the world. Unlike Ellis Island, it also served as a prison for hundreds of Chinese immigrants. The immigration compound at Angel Island was built to enforce an exclusionary law passed in 1882. This law, The Chinese Exclusion Act, was passed to deny entry to Chinese
1911 -
Ishi straggles into Oroville, the last surviving member of his tribe.
In California a special election was held on 10 October 1911 to vote on Senate Constitutional Amendment no. 8 granting suffrage to women. The amendment passed by a margin of 3,507 votes.
1912 -
Japanese Americans owned 12,726 acres of farmland in California.
April 15 - Titanic sinks
1913
California Alien Land Law prohibited "aliens ineligible to citizenship" (ie. all Asian immigrants) from owning land or property, but permitted three year leases.
The Raker Bill, which eventually became the Raker Act, granted the city of San Francisco the right to dam the Hetch Hetchy Valley as a reservoir, and the unfulfilled right of municipalized electricity for the city. --the Raker Act
The site of Cabrillo's first landing in California was made a national monument.
1915 - The task of creating a Palace of Fine Arts for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition fell to the architect Bernard R. Maybeck, then fifty years old and known for his innovative ideas. Setting to work on this new project, he chose as his theme a Roman ruin, mutilated and overgrown, in the mood of a Piranesi engraving.
1916 -By mid-1916, after viewing the carnage in Europe, the United States saw itself poised with great reluctance on the edge of participation in World War I. Isolationism and anti-preparedness feeling remained strong in San Francisco, not only among radicals such as the Industrial Workers of the World (otherwise known as the IWW, or the Wobblies), but also among responsible labor leaders. At the same time, with the rise of Bolshevism and labor unrest, San Francisco's business community was nervous. The Chamber of Commerce organized a Law and Order Committee, despite the diminishing influence and political clout of local labor organizations. Radical labor was a small but vociferous minority which few took seriously. Violence, however, was imminent. The huge Preparedness Day parade of Saturday, July 22, 1916, was the target date. A radical pamphlet of mid-July read in part, "We are going to use a little direct action on the 22nd to show that militarism can't be forced on us and our children without a violent protest." At 2:06pm, about half an hour into the parade, a bomb exploded on the west side of Steuart Street, just south of Market Street, near the Ferry Building. The bomb was concealed in a suitcase; ten bystanders were killed and forty wounded in the worst terrorist act in San Francisco history. --Preparedness Day Bombing
1920 - When Roger Baldwin founded the ACLU in 1920, civil liberties were in a sorry state. Citizens were sitting in jail for holding antiwar views. U.S. Attorney General Palmer was conducting raids upon aliens suspected of holding unorthodox opinions. Racial segregation was the law of the land and violence against blacks was routine. Sex discrimination was firmly institutionalized; it wasn't until 1920 that women even got the vote. --History of the ACLU
1921
Arbuckle, Roscoe 'Fatty', 1887 - 1933, screen comedian. Grown-up fat boy of American silent cinema whose career was ruined after his involvement in a 1921 scandal in which starlet Virginia Rappe died.
Charles Beach, his wife Doretta, and children Lela and Claude left Cornwall, Ontario on October 18, 1921.
1922 - In Ozawa v. U.S., the Supreme Court reaffirmed that Asian immigrants were not eligible for naturalization. --Timeline
1924 - Congress finally confers citizenship on (some) Native Americans.
1925 - Now, not-withstanding the tremendous advance in all costs, 260,000,000 passengers, including those using transfers, rode on the Market Street Railway Company last year [1924] for a five cent fare, which also entitled them to transfers good all over the system, on cars equipped with modern conveniences ... --Market Street Railway Company, Past, Present and Future
1928 - Modern age hockey dawns in the Bay Area with the creation of the California Hockey League.
1929 - With the Great Highway and Ocean Beach Esplanade, costing more than $1,000,000, and financed from the $9,380,000 highway bond issue voted by the people, completed, San Francisco today stands to show visitors from all over the world the finest stretch of highway ever constructed Completion of the highway was climaxed Sunday, June 9, by a monster celebration. More than 50,000 people massed at the end of Lincoln Way. Music from a band of 1014 musicians filled the air in joyous riot, while thousands of autoists tooted horns to add to the noise of the occasion. --Completing the Great Highway, 1929
1930 - San Francisco History 1930 - 1965 - by MCSF Historians have differed over how to explain the influence of New Deal social policies at the local, state and national levels. Some have argued that Roosevelt's New Deal programs, by expanding the role of government, created opportunities for political entrepreneurs to use federal programs to build a base of support for themselves and the Democratic Party in their communities. The lives of Florence Wyckoff and Helen Hosmer indicate that a more complex and organic process occurred in San Francisco. Both women came of age in the early-1930s and were profoundly influenced by the human suffering and injustice they witnessed during the Depression.
1933
Long Beach Earthquake.
San Francisco Ballet is America's oldest professional ballet company.
Alcatraz made a prison.
1934 -
San Francisco's maritme strike, which began May 9, 1934, tumbled out of control when the Industrial Association, made up of employers and business interests who wished to break the strike, and the power of San Francisco unions, began to move goods from the piers to warehouses. The first running battles between unionists and police began Tuesday, July 3, 1934. There was a lull during the July 4 holiday when no freight was moved, but disturbances picked up again Thursday, July 5, 1934 - known as "Bloody Thursday." This is the San Francisco News' coverage of the first day of the rioting -- July 3, 1934. --Bloody Thursday."
The meaning of our movment to End Poverty In California and its polling the largest vote ever cast in a California primary, is that our people have reached the saturation point as regards suffering. We are just about to begin the sixth year of the depression. We have one-and-a- quarter million persons dependent upon public charity, and probably as many more who are able to get only one or two days' work a week or who are dependent upon relatives and freinds. That is too heavy a burden of suffering for any civilized community to carry. --End Poverty in California - The EPIC Movement - by Upton Sinclair
1935
On January 18, the San Francisco Museum of Art, under the leadership of founding director Grace L. McCann Morley, opens in the fourth floor of the War Memorial Veterans Building
City College of San Francsico, a public two-year college, was established in 1935 as an integral part of the San Francisco Unified School District.
The Clipper's central lounge, which was wider than a Pullman club car, was fitted with broad armchairs, and its meal service included china and silverware. The first nine passengers paid $1,438.20 for a round trip from San Francisco to Manila. It cruised at 150 miles per hour and had a range of 3,200 miles. --China Clipper - Maiden Voyage - San Francisco 1935
1936 - The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened on November 12, 1936. The Bay Bridge is 60 Years Old - by Caltrans ; November 11-14 - 152K tons of steel 1Mil cu yrds concrete 200,000 gal paint 8.25 miles long 70,815 miles of cable 185 ft above high water, piers 50-242 ft. deep cost: $77,200,000 - Bay Bridge opens
1937 -
The concept of bridging the vast Golden Gate Strait was proposed as early as 1872 by railroad entrepreneur Charles Crocker. It was not until 1916, however, that the idea of a bridge was revived by James Wilkins, newspaper editor of the San Francisco Call Bulletin. He began an editorial campaign for a bridge which caught the attention of San Francisco City Engineer Michael M. O'Shaughnessy. O'Shaughnessy began a national inquiry among engineers regarding the feasibility and cost of such a project. The majority of engineers said a bridge could not be built. Some speculated it would cost over $100 million. However, Joseph Baermann Strauss, a designer of nearly 400 spans, said such a bridge was not only feasible, but could be built for only $25 to $30 million. --Building the Golden Gate Bridge
The Bridge was completed and opened to pedestrian traffic on May 27, 1937. The following day it was opened to vehicular traffic. First proposed in 1869 by town eccentric "Emperor Norton"; groundbreaking in 1933.
World War 2 was the most destructive war in human history. It began in Asia with the Japanese invasion of China that led to the outbreak of war between the two nations in 1937 and ended with the US dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in 1945. In Europe the Nazi troops blitzkrieged into Poland in 1939 and took over most of Europe, except for England and the Soviet Union. During the war in which 40,000,000 people died, Hitler sent 6,000,000 European Jews to their deaths in the Holocaust. The untold suffering caused by the German and Japanese war machines was ended by the brave resistance of people around the globe.
December - The Nanking Massacre (Rape of Nanking) -- the Chinese capital sacked by Japanese troops. The American gunboat USS Panay bombed and sunk near Nanking. --Nanjing Massacre: 300,000 Chinese People Killed, 20,000 Women Raped
1938 - Completion of Parker Dam and the creation of Lake Havasu.
December 11 - FBI detained 1370 Japanese Americans classified as "dangerous enemy aliens." --Timeline
1942 -
February 19 - President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the secretary of war to define military areas "from which any or all persons may be excluded as deemed necessary or desirable."2 The only significant opposition would come from the Quakers (Society of Friends) and the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union). --Timeline
March 2, 1942 General DeWitt issued Public Proclamation No. 1, creating military areas in Washington, Oregon, California, and parts of Arizona and declaring the right to remove German, Italian, and Japanese aliens and anyone of "Japanese Ancestry" living in Military Areas No. 1 and 2 should it become necessary. --Timeline
Two and a half months after Pearl Harbor, 110,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were citizens, were evacuated from their homes and relocated in a series of inland U.S. concentration camps. The episode was called by the ACLU "the worst single wholesale violation of civil rights of Americans citizens in our history." --The Japanese American Internment
The most serious discrimination during World War II was the decision to evacuate Japanese nationals and American citizens of Japanese descent from the West Coast and send them to internment camps. Because the FBI had arrested the individuals whom it considered security threats, FBI Director Hoover took the position that confining others was unnecessary. The President and Attorney General, however, chose to support the military assessment that evacuation and internment were imperative. Ultimately, the FBI became responsible for arresting curfew and evacuation violators.
A Japanese submarine shells an oil field near Goleta.
We think of the Beat Generation as a phenomenon of the 50's, but the term was invented by Jack Kerouac in 1948. The phrase was then introduced to the general public in 1952 when Kerouac's friend John Clellon Holmes wrote an article, 'This is the Beat Generation,' for the New York Times Magazine --The Beat Generation
In Oyama v. California, the Supreme Court struck down the Alien Land Laws as violations of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Evacuation Claims Act authorized payment to Japanese Americans who suffered economic loss during imprisonment: with the necessary proof, 10 cents was returned for every $1.00 lost --Timeline
1950
The 49ers struggled in their NFL debut, winning only three games.
Attempts by the State Alcoholic Beverage Commission to close down The Black Cat, a gay bar owned by Sol Stuman, end when the California State Supreme Court rules that bars cannot be discriminated against because they choose to cater to gays or lesbians.
1952 -
Bakersfield Earthquake.
The Bay Area Educational Television Association, the early volunteers began a long, uncharted journey forming the basis for what is today KQED, one of the first public broadcasting companies in America
1957 - The obscenity prosecution of Alan Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti for the publication of Ginsberg's poem Howl ends with the acquittal of both men.
1962 - Three convicts slip out of the Alcatraz Cell House and disappear into the waters of San Francisco Bay, never to be seen again.
1965 - January 1, 1965 New Year's Eve costume ball at California Hall to raise funds for the Council on Religion and the Homosexual was harassed by police. It became a turning point in the San Francisco gay rights movement. ACLU took the case, which was dismissed. --Chronology of San Francisco Rock (and more) 1965-1969
1966 -
The San Francisco Diggers became one of the legendary groups in the Haight-Ashbury during the years 1966 to 1968. Shrouded in a mystique of anonymity, they took their name from the original English Diggers of the 1640s. The San Francisco Diggers combined street theater, anarcho direct action, and art happenings in their social agenda. Their most famous activities revolved around Free Food (every day in the Panhandle), and the Free Store (where everything was free for the taking.) They produced a series of events that mark the evolution of the hippie phenomenon from a homegrown face-to-face community to the mass-media circus that splashed its face acrosss the world's front pages and TV screens. --The Digger Archives
The November 9, 1969 occupation was planned by Richard Oakes, a group of Indian students, and a group of urban Indians from the Bay Area. Since many different tribes were represented, the name "Indians of All Tribes" was adopted for the group. They claimed the island in the name of Indians of all tribes and left the island to return later that same evening. In meetings following the November 9th occupation, Oakes and his fellow American Indian students realized that a prolonged occupation was possible.
A collection of photographs which historically document the 1969-1971 occupation of Alcatraz Island by Indians of All Tribes, Inc. These rare photographs were contributed by Ilka Hartmann, Michelle Vignes, and the National Park Service ... --The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island - 1969 - 1971 by Professor Troy Johnson
Harvey Milk was born May 22, 1930 in Woodmere, New York. He became a sucessful Wall Street investment analyst and supported Barry Goldwater for president. He got involved in Broadway theatre which began eroding his conservative views. He moved west and decided that he wanted to be Mayor of San Francisco! His new found liberalism, charisma, weird sense of humor, and belief in politics as theatre, set the stage for his San Francisco political career. ... t's 11 AM on Monday morning, November 27, 1978 in San Francisco. The startling news comes to us from KSAN, the popular rock-and-roll station. Dianne Feinstein, President of the Board of Supervisors, in a shaking voice says: "Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot . . . and killed. The suspect is Supervisor Dan White." --Harvey Milk
Dan White was a typical all-american-boy born and raised in San Francisco. He was a policeman and then a fireman and then ran for Supervisor in the heavily conservative Irish-Catholic working class neighborhood known as District 8. He promised to restore traditional values to San Francisco city government. He promised to rid San Francisco of "radicals, social deviates, and incorrigibles"... However, he did not bother to contact White at any time during the weekend. By Monday morning White's rage had reached a peak and he loaded his gun and went downtown. He entered City Hall through an open basement window to avoid the metal detectors at the entrances. He went first to Moscone's office and shot him in the chest and then delivered a bullet to the head at close range as the mayor lay dying on the floor. As he walked down the corridor to the Supervisors' offices on the other end of the building, he reloaded his gun. He asked Harvey for a few minutes in private and led him into his former office where he slew him in the same manner including two bullets to the brain... Dan White left City Hall without further incident and was found a short time later with his wife praying at Saint Mary's Cathedral, several blocks from City Hall. Dan White was paroled from Soledad Prison on January 6, 1985 after serving a minimal sentence for manslaughter. He committed suicide on October 21, 1985.
1987 - In June of 1987, a small group of strangers gathered in a San Francisco storefront to document the lives they feared history would neglect. Their goal was to create a memorial for those who had died of AIDS, and to thereby help people understand the devastating impact of the disease. This meeting of devoted friends and lovers served as the foundation of The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. -- The History of the NAMES Project
AIDS Patients Flock to San Francisco When Jonathan Samoan found out he had the AIDS virus he knew where to go -- San Francisco. If there is a mecca for AIDS patents this is it. (John) "I knew that there were doctors in the San Francisco area that were very knowledgeable about treatments and I wanted that for myself." --AIDS Patients Flock to San Francisco - by Greg Lefevre
1992 - Mayor Frank Jordan announces a state of emergency and a curfew after looters and vandals hit downtown following the Rodney King beating verdict. Police Chief Hongisto is fired after he orders his officers to clear the racks of 2000 copies of an issue of the gay Bay Times which criticizes his tactics against King demonstrators.
1993 - July 1 - Apparently dissatisfied with the legal services he had received from the law firm of Pettit & Martin, he entered their offices on the 34th floor of 101 California Street at 2:57 PM and within 4 minutes had killed 8 people and wonded 6. --John Luigi Ferri
1995 -
January 31, 1995 - The year of the boar starts today.
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