Rincon Hill

This bronze says it is mounted on the retaining wall of St. Mary's Hospital, and a few lines lower says the wall is gone and the plaque was moved 900 feet in 2011. The recast kept both sentences, and spelled the Clampers Clampsus. The hill's own undoing came in 1869, when some 500 men cut Second Street a hundred feet deep through its crest to reach the southern waterfront. Houses slid toward the cut, and by 1880 Stevenson was calling the place a new slum.

What the plaque says

Rincon Hill 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 in 1861 but destroyed in the fire of 1906. California Historical Landmark No. 84 Plaque placed by the State Department of Parks and Recreation in cooperation with the Yerba Buena Chapter No. 1 of E Clampus Vitus and Charles Albert Shumate, April 16, 1981. Plaque replaced in cooperation with the California Department of Transportation and Yerba Buena Number One, Capitulus Redivivus, E Clampsus Vitus, after removal of St. Mary's Hospital retaining wall and installed approximately 900 feet northeast of original location in October of 2011.

Where it stands

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