Besides the graffiti and shadow of the shopfront gate, here’s what it says:
THE BIRTHPLACE OF A GREAT CITY
HERE, JUNE 25, 1835, WILLIAM A. RICHARDSON,
FOUNDER OF YERBA BUENA, (LATER SAN FRANCISCO,)
ERECTED ITS FIRST HABITATION, A TENT DWELLING,
REPLACING IT, IN OCTOBER, 1835, BY THE FIRST WOODEN HOUSE,
AND ON THIS GROUND, IN 1836, HE ERECTED THE
LARGE ADOBE BUILDING, KNOWN AS “CASA GRANDE”.
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THIS TABLET WAS PLACED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE
NORTHERN FEDERATION OF CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS
OF SAN FRANCISCO.
THIS SITE WAS CONFIRMED BY
THE CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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