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A fashionable neighborhood
in the 1860s, Rincon Hill was the home of William Tecumseh
Sherman, William C. Ralston, William Gwin, H. H. Bancroft,
and others. By the 1880s the hill, already partially leveled,
became a working class district. Today it is nearly invisible
beneath the Bay Bridge. This plaque is mounted on the
retaining wall of St. Mary's Hospital, built 1861 but
destroyed in the fire of 1906.
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