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Landmark 119
Portsmouth Plaza
Kearny Street Between Clay and Washington
Built Prior to 1846
Portsmouth Plaza in San Francisco
25 August 2007
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The Plaque Reads

On this spot the American flag was first raised in San Francisco by Commander John B. Montgomery of the U. S. S. Portsmouth

July 9 1846

Marked by the Daughters of the American Revolution
San Francisco Chapters
1924

East Side of Portsmouth Plaza in 1850
East Side of Portsmouth Square in the Spring of 1850
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From Page 358 of The Annals of San Francisco by Frank Soule, John Gihon, and James Nesbit, Published 1855 by D. Appleton & Company, New York.

East Side of Portsmouth Plaza Circa 1852
East Side of Portsmouth Square Circa 1852
B. F. Butler, Lithographer

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East Side of Portsmouth Square on 13 March 1906
East Side of Portsmouth Square on 13 March 1906
Photograph by Turrill & Miller

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The photograph shows the old San Francisco Hall of Justice on Kearny Street a few weeks before the April 1906 Earthquake and Fire.

 
 
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