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Years
1864
Fairmont Hospital entrance
Bank of California
The
Alameda County Infirmary
is established
(Fairmont Hospital pictured)
literary newspaper
The Californian
begins publishing in San Francisco, with
Bret Harte
as editor, and
Mark Twain
as a writer
The
Bank of California
(pictured)
is founded in San Francisco by
William Chapman Ralston
The Napa Valley Railroad Company
is founded by
Samuel Brannan
to shuttle tourists between
ferry boats
docked in
Vallejo
to the resort town of
Calistoga
The
San Francisco and San Jose Railroad
completes its 49.5-mile (80 km) route from San Francisco to
San Jose
along the
San Francisco Peninsula
, becoming the first railroad to link the two cities
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