Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/151

1864
 * The Alameda County Infirmary is established (Fairmont Hospital pictured)
 * literary newspaper The Californian begins publishing in San Francisco, with Bret Harte as editor, and Mark Twain as a writer
 * The Bank of California (pictured) is founded in San Francisco by William Chapman Ralston
 * The Napa Valley Railroad Company is founded by Samuel Brannan to shuttle tourists between ferry boats docked in Vallejo to the resort town of Calistoga
 * The San Francisco and San Jose Railroad completes its 49.5 mi route from San Francisco to San Jose along the San Francisco Peninsula, becoming the first railroad to link the two cities