Fairmount Heights Resources
Origins of Fairmount Heights: Foundations in Railroad, Civil War, and Real Estate Histories
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Mary Ellen Pleasant, Mother of Civil Rights in California:
The Truth About Her Link to the Mansion on Fairmount's Laidley Street
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Dan Maloney, Aeronaut: Forgotten Aviation Pioneer of Fairmount Heights
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Several articles, San Francisco Call, Santa Cruz Sentinel, and others. Search terms (include quotes): "Daniel Maloney" aeronaut. Available at the California Digital Newspaper Collection.
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Several articles, San Francisco Chronicle, and others. Search terms (include quotes): "Daniel Maloney" aeronaut. Available at Newspapers.com (subscription required).
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Anonymous. Montgomery Evergreen Glider. Available at the San Diego Air and Space Museum.
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Fogel GB and Harwood CS. Quest for Flight: John J. Montgomery and the Dawn of Aviation in the West. University of Oklahoma Press: Norman, Oklahoma. 2012.
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Maloney D. First Man to Fly Describes His Sensation. Santa Cruz Sentinal, May 3, 1905 (pg 9). Available at California Digital Newspaper Collection.
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Plunges Into Space 4,000 Feet Above the Earth. Popular Mechanics, June 1905. Available at Google Books.
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The Wrights: Truth in Aviation History. The Wrights Invented What" Lateral Control and John J. Montgomery. September 10, 2014. Available at Truth in Aviation History.
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John J. Montgomery Collection, Santa Clara University, Archives and Collections. Available at Santa Clara University.
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The Cliff House Project has more information about ballooning and parachuting in San Francisco.
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History of Fairmount School
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Daily Alta California, various issues (re: Fairmount School). Available at the California Digital Newspaper Collection.
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San Francisco Call, various issues (re: Fairmount School). Available at the California Digital Newspaper Collection.
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Ehat SK. The San Francisco Mile Houses. Available at Google Maps.
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Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Schools for the School Year Ending June 20, 1875. Spaulding & Barto, Steam Book and Job Printers: San Francisco, CA. 1875. Available at Google Books.
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San Francisco Municipal Reports for the Fiscal Year 1877-1878, ending June 30, 1878. Available at Google Books.
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The San Francisco Block Book, vol II, Homesteads. The Hicks-Judd Company: San Francisco, CA. 1907. Available at Archive.org.
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San Francisco Municipal Record, Vol. IX, 1916. Available at Google Books.
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San Francisco Municipal Record, Vol. X, 1917. Available at Google Books.
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Fairmount School. Available at We Are Fairmount.
The Namesake of Wilder Street: Hyrum Wilder of Massachusetts
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Book of the Wilders: A Contribution to the History of the Wilders From 1497, in England … 1875. Available at Google Books.
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The San Francisco City Directories. Available at the San Francisco Public Library.
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Daily Alta California, Marysville Daily Herald, various issues. Available at the California Digital Newspaper Collection.
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U.S. Federal Census Records 1850, 1860, 1870; Non-Population Schedules 1860; California, Voter Registers, 1866-1898 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Available at Ancestry.com.
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San Francisco Municipal Record, vol. IX, No. 23, June 8, 1916. Available at Google Books.
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Eldredge, Zoeth Skinner. The Beginnings of San Francisco. San Francisco, Cal: Z. E. Skinner, 1912. Available at Archive.org.
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Brown, John H. Reminiscences and Incidents of “The Early Days” of San Francisco. San Francisco, Cal: Mission Journal Publishing Co., 1886. Available at Archive.org.
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Bancroft Hubert Howe. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. History of California, Vol. VI, 1848-1859. San Francisco, Cal.: The History Company, Publishers, 1888. Available at Google Books.
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San Francisco Assessor's Office Homestead Maps. SFH 76. Volumes A & B; Volumes C & D. Available at the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
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