7/19/2024

7/19/2024

7/19/2024

7/19/2024

7/19/2024

7/19/2024

7/19/2024

Landmark information

  • Location:
    Ferndale City Hall Park, intersection of Main and Herbert Sts, Ferndale
  • Plaque:
    Official State Plaque
  • Site:
    Existing
  • Date First Visited:
    9/4/1995
  • Date Most Recently Visited:
    7/19/2024
  • GPS Coordinates:
    N 40 34.851, W 124 15.588
  • Other Designations:
    National Register of Historic Places

About this landmark

Plaque text:

Ferndale
This pioneer agricultural community, settled in 1852, helped feed the booming population of mid-century San Francisco. Long known as "Cream City," Ferndale made innovative and lasting contributions to the dairy industry. Local creameries, and the town's role as a transportation and shipping center in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, fostered prosperity which produced Ferndale's outstanding Victorian-Gothic residential and false-front commercial architecture.