Site of Fort Gunnybags - San Francisco, CA
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N 37° 47.657 W 122° 23.902
10S E 552968 N 4183160
Site of Fort Gunnybags in downtown San Francisco.
Waymark Code: WM5YJ3
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 03/02/2009
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"The Sacramento Block was built in the 1850's as a warehouse. In 1856, the San Francisco Vigilance Committee made it their headquarters and arsenal and fortified it with gunnysacks.
The Vigilance Committee erected a scaffold in Davis Street near Fort Gunnybags and executed Brace and Heatherington (alternately, Hetherington) on July 29, 1856, for unrelated murders.
The Sacramento Block warehouse was a simple, two-story Classical Revival building built of brick and stucco. The firstd floor had casement doors and the second floor had tall casement windows. Although the Sacramento Block building was destroyed in the Great Earthquake and Fire, surviving warehouses in the nearby Northeast Waterfront Historic District are similar to the lost buidling." (
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