Pioneer Race Course
The Pioneer Race Course was a horse race track opened in March 1851 in the southern Mission District of San Francisco, California.[1]
This was the first race course in San Francisco.[2] At the time it was planned to be built, no streets existed in this neighborhood but later it appears to be bound by 24th St (formerly Park St), 26th St (formerly Navy St), Capp St & Alabama St.[3]
It was built by powerful local businessmen George Treat and his brother John Treat and later sold in the end of the 1800s for residential development. The positioning of this race course, as well as a later built race course also located in the Mission called Union Race Course appear to have affected the placement of the San Francisco-San Jose Railway.[4]
Historical Events
On May 21, 1854 the Pioneer Race Course was the site of a duel between lawyer George T. Hunt & his friend Numa Hubert, an ex-member of the California state assembly. On the third round George T. Hunt was shot in the abdomen and died.[5][6][7]
From 1862 until 1865 the Pioneer Race Course served a civil war encampment called Camp Alert for the 2nd California Calvary before they moved to Salt Lake City, Utah.[8]
References
- ↑ Williams, Amy. "The Del Mar Race Track 75 Years of Turf and Surf". San Diego History.
- ↑ "Vanished Waters of Southeastern San Francisco Notes on Mission Bay and the Marshes and Creeks of the Potreros and the Bernal Rancho" on the The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco : access date Sept, 14, 2013
- ↑ The Mission Becomes a Resort, 1850s Historical Essay on Digital Archive @ FoundSF : access date Sept 14, 2013
- ↑ "Mission History as Revealed By Creeks, Streams, Lakes and Lagoons on Burrito Justice". access date Sept 14, 2013.
- ↑ Chiang, Yee (November 1, 1964). Silent Traveller in San Francisco. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 366. ISBN 978-0393084221.
- ↑ "SF genealogy". Retrieved access Sept 14, 2013.
- ↑ "The Hubert-Hunt Duel on One Voter Project".
- ↑ "Camp Alert". The California State Military Museum.
Coordinates: 37°45′5″N 122°24′58″W / 37.75139°N 122.41611°W
