Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/151
Appearance
1864
![Fairmont Hospital entrance](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Fairmonthospitalentranceclose.jpg/90px-Fairmonthospitalentranceclose.jpg)
![Bank of California](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Bank_of_California_Building_San_Francisco.jpg/90px-Bank_of_California_Building_San_Francisco.jpg)
- The Alameda County Infirmary is established (Fairmont Hospital pictured)
- literary newspaper The Californian begins publishing in San Francisco, with Bret Harte as editor, and Mark Twain as a writer
- The Bank of California (pictured) is founded in San Francisco by William Chapman Ralston
- The Napa Valley Railroad Company is founded by Samuel Brannan to shuttle tourists between ferry boats docked in Vallejo to the resort town of Calistoga
- The San Francisco and San Jose Railroad completes its 49.5-mile (80 km) route from San Francisco to San Jose along the San Francisco Peninsula, becoming the first railroad to link the two cities