Site of Brick Building of the Firm of Mellus and Howard

The society that cosigned most of the bronzes on this street has none at its own birthplace. The Society of California Pioneers was organized here on 31 August 1850, in the brick warehouse the firm of Henry Mellus and William D. M. Howard had put up in 1848, with Howard as its first president and the state's history as its charge. A century later its name was cast on the state tablets up and down Montgomery Street. The state registered this corner in 1950. Nothing marks it.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Muir Beach Overlook — 11 mi
  A cliff edge on Highway 1, and the concrete dugouts where two-man crews watched the sea after Pearl Harbor.
• Muir Woods National Monument — 11 mi
  A redwood canyon saved from a reservoir by a gift, and named for a man who had been there once.
• Earthquake Trail — 27 mi
  A short loop along the San Andreas, where a broken fence shows how far Point Reyes moved in under a minute in 1906.
• Kule Loklo — 28 mi
  A Coast Miwok village built in the 1970s to honour a people its builders were told had died out. They had not.

More markers nearby

• Landing Place of Captain J. B. Montgomery — steps away
• Site of First U.S. Branch Mint — steps away
• Hudson's Bay Company Headquarters — steps away
• Western Headquarters of Russell, Majors, and Waddell — steps away