Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/126

1889

James Flood Mansion, headquarters of the Pacific-Union Club

Plaque at St. Paul's Episcopal Church

• The Pacific-Union Club in San Francisco (pictured) is founded as a merger of two earlier clubs: the Pacific Club (founded 1852) and the Union Club (founded 1854)
• The Astronomical Society of the Pacific is founded in San Francisco
• Mayacamas Vineyards is established on the Mayacamas Mountains within the Napa Valley
• St. Paul's Episcopal Church (historical plaque pictured) in Walnut Creek is completed
• Livermore Valley winery Cresta Blanca's first vintage, an 1884 dry white wine, wins Grand Prize at the Paris Exposition, becoming the first California wine to win a competition in France