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Port Costa, California

1879 establishments in CaliforniaCarquinez StraitCensus-designated places in CaliforniaCensus-designated places in Contra Costa County, CaliforniaPopulated places established in 1879
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Port Costa
Port Costa

Port Costa is a small village and census-designated place (CDP) in Contra Costa County, California, located in East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. Situated on the southern shore of the Carquinez Strait, the population was 242 at the 2020 based on United States Census Bureau.

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Port Costa, California
Canyon Lake Drive,

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N 38.046388888889 ° E -122.18333333333 °
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The Warehouse Cafe

Canyon Lake Drive 5
94569
California, United States
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First Presbyterian Church of Benicia
First Presbyterian Church of Benicia

First Presbyterian Church of Benicia was founded on April 15, 1849, at a building in Benicia, California in Solano County, California. The Presbyterian Church of Benicia site is a California Historical Landmark No. 175 listed on March 6, 1935. The First Presbyterian Church of Benicia was the first Protestant church founded in California with a staff pastor. The pastor was Reverend Sylvester Woodbridge Jr., who founded the church in 1849 using a school house. Woodbridge came to California in 1848. First Presbyterian Church built a building that was dedicated on March 9, 1851. Woodbridge was the pastor till 1869, when he moved to San Francisco. The Presbyterian California Gold Rush church ended in 1875. The Church became a One-room school and most the members moved to the First Congregational Church of Benicia founded in 1865. Later the church-school building became an Episcopal Church. The Episcopal Church soon built a larger church. The 1851 church was remove and the land became Benicia City Park.A historical marker is at the site of the former First Presbyterian Church of Benicia in is Benicia City Park, on K Street. The marker was placed there by The Historic Landmarks Committee Grand Parlor Native Sons and Benicia Parlor No.89 and Benicia Parlor No.287 Native Sons of the Golden West and Native Daughters of the Golden West in 1932.Reverend Sylvester Woodbridge Jr. was born on June 15, 1813, in Sharon, Connecticut. Woodbridge graduated from Union College in 1830 and Princeton Theological Seminary in 1846. Woodbridge married Mary Foster in 1836, they had 11 children: 11. They came to San Francisco in February 1849 sailing from New York on the SS California. Captain Montgomery of the ship SS Portsmouth docked in San Francisco helped Woodbridge in putting on Church Worship Services. By April 15, 1849, there were enough regular attendees to establish The First Presbyterian Church of Benicia. The church was small so, Woodbridge was school teacher Monday to Friday, for a living in the early days of the Church. For the first year he also lived in the church building. He as the pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Benicia for 18 years. Woodbridge died in 1883, at the age of 70.

Old Masonic Hall (Benicia, California)
Old Masonic Hall (Benicia, California)

The Old Masonic Hall, also known as Benicia Masonic Hall, is a historic building in Benicia, California. Constructed by Benicia Masonic Lodge No. 5 in summer 1850, on land donated by Alexander Riddell and with lumber donated by Benicia founder Robert Semple, it was the first purpose build Masonic Hall in California. It was occupied by the lodge October 14, 1850, and formally dedicated December 27, 1850.In 1850 Benicia was the original County seat of Solano County, and the first floor of the Hall was used as the Solano County court room and offices prior to the completion of Benicia's city hall. The second-floor rooms, with remarkable ornate woodwork made by California frontier craftsmen, was used for the Lodge. The Benicia Lodge No. 5, founded on March 6, 1850, included many of the important Benicia pioneers, among them Robert Semple, W. B. Nurse, L. B, Mizner, and Alexander Riddell. The building served as the Masonic Temple for Benicia Lodge No. 5 until 1888, when the Lodge outgrew the premises and constructed a larger one adjacent to it. The building was then sold to be used for community purposes; it housed a boys' club prior to World War I and the American Legion shortly after the war. In 1950, one hundred years after it was erected, it was reacquired by Benicia Lodge No. 5. The building was listed on the California Historical Landmarks in 1935 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. One of the earliest surviving public buildings in Benicia, the Old Masonic Hall is an excellent example of 19th-century Greek Revival architecture. The moderately pitched front gable roof has a molded fascia and a plain verge board. A cornice is found on both the gable end and the eaves. The fenestration is symmetrically arranged. The gable entry porch covering extends beyond the building on the west side. Cladding is lap siding with wooden pilasters with capitals at the corners of the building.The building is still in use.