NW corner of Sacramento and Battery Sts., San Francisco, California. County/parish: San Francisco.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 16, 1991. NRIS 91000561.
1 contributing site.Also known as:
The Apollo is a historic storeship that is buried at a location in downtown San Francisco, California, at the site of the Old Federal Reserve Bank. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. Parts of the ship have been uncovered, most recently in 1921 and 1925. The ship was in existence by 10 March 1831, when it was registered at Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Photographs from the 1921 uncovering exist. The 1925 excavation revealed coins from 1797, 1825, and 1840, a gold nugget, and assorted navigational pieces. One of numerous buried ships within San Francisco, it is an archeological site, listed at least partially for its potential to yield information in the future.
The ship was acquired by Moses Yale Beach of the New York Sun in 1848 for the California Gold Rush, and was later converted into the "Apollo Saloon", serving alcohol, donoughts and coffee.
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