October 30 Clubs in 1849 A Masonic lodge was formed at Benton City. Peter Lassen chartered this lodge with Saschel Woods. They met while Lassen was forming his wagon train to California. Theaters in 1850 The Jenny Lind Theatre opened above Tom Maguire’s Parker House on San Francisco’s Portsmouth Square. Atherton in 1857 Gertrude Atherton, author […]