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Silliman St

42 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Silliman St, between 1908 and 2001, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, schools, fire stations.

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What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks6Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Schools3School sites bought, built and repaired.
  • Fire stations3Engine houses and fire stations.
  • Clinics and hospitals3Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
  • Protests and appeals2A protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.
  • Land and buildings split up2A lot split in two, or a building divided into flats that sell separately.

Decade by decade

Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.

  1. 2000s1
    All-way stops for 10th Avenue at Kirkham and Silliman Streets · 2001
  2. 1980s1
    Stop signs set at Dartmouth, Silliman and Kirkham Streets · 1985
  3. 1970s3
    Stop signs adopted at seven corners, including Avalon and Peru Avenues · 1974
  4. 1950s1
    City takes over new roadways on Moscow and Silliman Streets · 1954
  5. 1940s7
    City takes over parts of Diamond, Gaven and Cambridge Streets · 1948
  6. 1930s3
    City accepts land at Silliman and Felton streets in University Mound · 1930
  7. 1920s5
    Market Street Railway asked whether it will sell to the city · 1921
  8. 1910s18
    $15,784 set aside for a school at Cambridge and Silliman Streets · 1918
  9. 1900s3
    Joseph B. Keenan sells school land on Cambridge Street for $8,250 · 1908

The most notable decisions

Where this comes from

Every decision the record places on this street is here. Every line is written from one item in the minutes of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the city council, and links to the page it was printed on at the Internet Archive or in the Clerk's own files. Many of the Board's decisions name no street at all, and only the ones that do can be placed here. How the record was read · The whole city