Gold, Gods & Glory On California Admission Day, September 9, we toured San Mateo County for examples of Gold, Gods, and Glory.
		Captain Juan Bautista de Anza, 1776. As a high tribute to an illustrious historical figure born in Sonora, founder of the City of San Francisco, and with the purpose of strengthening the friendly ties betwen the peoples of Mexico and the U.S. The State of Sonora of the Republic of Mexico presented this statue to the City of San Francisco. Ralston Mansion, 1867. William Chapman Ralston, Ohio-born financier, moved to San Francisco (1854) and. having made a reputation in banking, a decade later founded the Bank of California. He conducted its affairs so dramatically and so effectively that he made it the leading bank in the Far West. He overextended himself and his bank in speculative financing. A run on the bank forced it to close its doors in August 1875. At that tense time, he went for a swim in the Bay, and drowned. Whether this occurred by accident or design was never known; although after his death his questionable manipulation of funds was discovered, as was his own insolvency. Sanchez Adobe. It was an Indian village, a mission farm, a cattle ranch, the home of Francisco Sanchez [alcalde (Mayor) of San Francisco], a residence of General Kirkpatrick, the Hotel San Pedro, a speakeasy known as Adobe House, and an artichoke storage facility. For many years it was the only provider of food for Mission Dolores in San Francisco. Broderick-Terry Duel. A deep rift developed within the Democratic Party in the late 1850s over whether Kansas should be admitted to the Union as a slave or free state. Californians of Southern nativity and proclivity, like State Supreme Court Justice David S. Terry and U.S. Senator William M. Gwin, sided with the Lecompton wing of the Democratic Party—favoring the pro-slavery constitution framed at Lecompton, Kansas—while Northerners like Broderick, whose dying words were reputed to be that, "they killed me because I was opposed to the extension of slavery and the corruption of justice," took a more enlightened antebellum stand. Pulgas Water Temple, 1938. San Francisco's dam on the Tuolumme River floods the Hetch Hetchy valley in northwest Yosemite National Park. Water from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir flows across the state to Pulgas Water Temple, and to the residents of San Francisco and San Mateo counties. San Francisco Bay Discovery Site. In July 1769 Gaspar de Portolá led 63 men overland from San Diego to claim land for the Spanish and thus advance wealth, Christianity, and, of course, glory. Late in October, exhausted, hungry, and sick, the men advanced along the coast to a site one mile from Skyline College. Jack London slept here, 1897. Jack London worked in the Reid School's (Belmont School for Boys) laundry in 1897 when he was 21 years old.