Thereafter, any regional mentionВ of Maiden Lane, if not speaking of Maiden Lane in New York City, was generally always in reference to Maiden Lane in Marysville, Calif.,вЂќthe Gateway to the Gold Fields,вЂќ located up the FeatherВ River from Sacramento. 2) Less thanВ a month later,В Mygatt, Bryant & Co.вЂ™s bathing establishment - and everything else on the block - burned to the ground in the great fire of May 4, 1850.В ( Sacramento Transcript, May 14, 1850, p. We are pleased to find that efforts to keep our citizens in a cleanly and healthy condition are appreciated.вЂќ ( Daily Alta, April 11, 1850, p. Although they have been open but three days, customers already flock to their baths and keep them in constant use. have taken the field and fitted up a neat, convenient and comfortable bathing house in Maiden Lane, a few doors from Washington street, near the National Theatre. вЂњNothing is so conducive to health as the bath, and we have frequently expressed our surprise at the absence of any decent bathing establishment when the opening presented for one was so evident. Its claim to fame in San FranciscoвЂ™s early historyВ however cameВ in April 1850 when it became the addressВ of the cityвЂ™s first bath house: вЂњAt last there is a place in San Francisco where the unsurpassable luxury of bathing can be enjoyed to perfection,вЂќ reported the Daily Alta. FollowingВ the gold rush, Maiden Lane becameВ lined with one to two-story wooden structures, for example in early 1850В aВ two-story carpenter shop/lodging house was being sold on the laneВ ( Daily Alta, Feb. Following the California Gold Rush of 1849, SFвЂ™s original Maiden Lane came to be nearby, roughly where the red line is. This detail from BuckelewвЂ™s map in 1847 shows the lagoon once located at the crossing of Jackson and Montgomery streets. It wasВ one of the first blocks of the city affected by landfill, located where Chinatown, Jackson Square, and the Financial District meet today. 121) Most likely working around the topography of the block, the lane was located just west of where aВ lagoon used to be at theВ intersection of Jackson and Montgomery streets.

KimballвЂ™s City Directory of 1850В -В the cityвЂ™s first - lists Maiden Lane as oneВ of just eightВ вЂњsmaller streets & placesвЂќ central to the city at the time. San FranciscoвЂ™sВ originalВ Maiden Lane was located just up from Yerba Buena Cove, a stoneвЂ™s throw fromВ Portsmouth Square, passing from Washington to Jackson, between Montgomery and Kearny streets. While the streetвЂ™s rebirth as Maiden Lane has become legend, the story of a Maiden Lane in San Francisco goes back to the beginnings of the city.В ( Sacramento Union, July 10, 1877, p. ForВ those that know a bit about San Francisco history the laneвЂ™s name is ironic,В asВ in the later part of the 19th century it wasВ Morton Street, lined with maisons de joie.В More often than not, men were lured to Morton StreetВ and then robbed when their clothes were left uninhabited. Today Maiden LaneВ - named in the 1920s asВ a hopeful referenceВ to more famous Maiden Lanes around the world^ - sits in the heart of San FranciscoвЂ™sВ Union SquareВ Shopping District, runningВ east/west for two blocks within the bounds of Post, Kearny, Geary and Stockton streets.

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