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| Located
on the southeast corner of Sacramento and Front streets, Fort
Vigilance, or ìFort Gunny Bagsî served as the 1856
headquarters of San Francisco's second 'Committee of
Vigilance'. Throughout 1856, many of San Francisco's leading
citizens eagerly associated themselves with the Committee of
Vigilance, a powerful, if short-lived and quasi-legal, organization
of local citizens dedicated to the restoration of law and order
in a burgeoning, dynamic, often chaotic young metropolis that
was known for its lawlessness. |
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activities of this Gold Rush era organization were instrumental
in shaping the character of the young city and the essential
attitudes of its citizens. From the fall of 1998 to December
of 1999, Archeo-Tec uncovered the structural remains and associated
artifacts of the Fort Vigilance two-story granite and brick
edifice. |
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