Join the 22ND ANNUAL POTRERO HILL HISTORY NIGHT, on Saturday, November 6 beginning at 7:00 pm. This year, the event will be entirely virtual and will include interviews with two iconic Potrero Hill natives. The first is Margaret Rice, who grew up and raised her family on Potrero Hill, and is a member of the 113 year-old Potrero Women's Club. The club's mission is 'civic usefulness and mutual improvement'. The club started the first Potrero library and picketed City Hall in 1961 when the Southern Freeway threatened the neighborhood. Margaret remembers roasting potatoes as a child on a Potrero Hill empty lot, and 'Dish Night' at the neighborhood movie house.
Secondly, hear the untold story of James P. Dyer, a Black pioneer who came to San Francisco from New Bedford, Massachusetts, a center of abolitionism. Mr. Dyer established soap making in the Potrero in 1865. A factory building still stands at 18th & Carolina St today. Mr. Dyer joined the SF Black community to successfully fight racist policies in California, and became president of the SF Athenaeum and Literary Society, probably the first Black circulating library in the West, central to political and cultural life in SF's Gold Rush Black community.
Each Fall for 22 years, The Potrero Hill Archives Project has presented Potrero Hill History Night. The focus is on sharing local stories meant to bring together old-timers and newcomers to the neighborhood. The Potrero Hill Archives Project started in 1986 collecting oral histories, historic photos, and anything connected to Potrero Hill and Dogpatch history. Our History Nights bring together neighborhood old-timers and newcomers. The Archives' Peter Linenthal and Abigail Johnston co-wrote two Arcadia books: 'San Francisco's Potrero Hill' 2005, and 'Then & Now: Potrero Hill' 2009.
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Secondly, hear the untold story of James P. Dyer, a Black pioneer who came to San Francisco from New Bedford, Massachusetts, a center of abolitionism. Mr. Dyer established soap making in the Potrero in 1865. A factory building still stands at 18th & Carolina St today. Mr. Dyer joined the SF Black community to successfully fight racist policies in California, and became president of the SF Athenaeum and Literary Society, probably the first Black circulating library in the West, central to political and cultural life in SF's Gold Rush Black community.
Each Fall for 22 years, The Potrero Hill Archives Project has presented Potrero Hill History Night. The focus is on sharing local stories meant to bring together old-timers and newcomers to the neighborhood. The Potrero Hill Archives Project started in 1986 collecting oral histories, historic photos, and anything connected to Potrero Hill and Dogpatch history. Our History Nights bring together neighborhood old-timers and newcomers. The Archives' Peter Linenthal and Abigail Johnston co-wrote two Arcadia books: 'San Francisco's Potrero Hill' 2005, and 'Then & Now: Potrero Hill' 2009.
Join the 22ND ANNUAL POTRERO HILL HISTORY NIGHT, on Saturday, November 6 beginning at 7:00 pm. This year, the event will be entirely virtual and will include interviews with two iconic Potrero Hill natives. The first is Margaret Rice, who grew up and raised her family on Potrero Hill, and is a member of the 113 year-old Potrero Women's Club. The club's mission is 'civic usefulness and mutual improvement'. The club started the first Potrero library and picketed City Hall in 1961 when the Southern Freeway threatened the neighborhood. Margaret remembers roasting potatoes as a child on a Potrero Hill empty lot, and 'Dish Night' at the neighborhood movie house.
Secondly, hear the untold story of James P. Dyer, a Black pioneer who came to San Francisco from New Bedford, Massachusetts, a center of abolitionism. Mr. Dyer established soap making in the Potrero in 1865. A factory building still stands at 18th & Carolina St today. Mr. Dyer joined the SF Black community to successfully fight racist policies in California, and became president of the SF Athenaeum and Literary Society, probably the first Black circulating library in the West, central to political and cultural life in SF's Gold Rush Black community.
Each Fall for 22 years, The Potrero Hill Archives Project has presented Potrero Hill History Night. The focus is on sharing local stories meant to bring together old-timers and newcomers to the neighborhood. The Potrero Hill Archives Project started in 1986 collecting oral histories, historic photos, and anything connected to Potrero Hill and Dogpatch history. Our History Nights bring together neighborhood old-timers and newcomers. The Archives' Peter Linenthal and Abigail Johnston co-wrote two Arcadia books: 'San Francisco's Potrero Hill' 2005, and 'Then & Now: Potrero Hill' 2009.
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Secondly, hear the untold story of James P. Dyer, a Black pioneer who came to San Francisco from New Bedford, Massachusetts, a center of abolitionism. Mr. Dyer established soap making in the Potrero in 1865. A factory building still stands at 18th & Carolina St today. Mr. Dyer joined the SF Black community to successfully fight racist policies in California, and became president of the SF Athenaeum and Literary Society, probably the first Black circulating library in the West, central to political and cultural life in SF's Gold Rush Black community.
Each Fall for 22 years, The Potrero Hill Archives Project has presented Potrero Hill History Night. The focus is on sharing local stories meant to bring together old-timers and newcomers to the neighborhood. The Potrero Hill Archives Project started in 1986 collecting oral histories, historic photos, and anything connected to Potrero Hill and Dogpatch history. Our History Nights bring together neighborhood old-timers and newcomers. The Archives' Peter Linenthal and Abigail Johnston co-wrote two Arcadia books: 'San Francisco's Potrero Hill' 2005, and 'Then & Now: Potrero Hill' 2009.
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