Genealogy Society of Vallejo-Benicia

Photo courtesy of Benicia Historical Museum

Pictured: Spenger's, the famous fish restaurant of Berkeley, opened another restaurant in San Rafael on the ferryboat "Encinal". The ferryboat was later moved to Benicia where Spenger's opened again in April of 1943, 2 miles west of town on the Benicia-Vallejo Highway. The "Encinal" was built in San Francisco in 1887 and was designed to carry narrow gauge freight trains between San Francisco and Alameda. A short video clip of the Encinal in its Spenger's Grotto incarnation can be viewed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1jsWsQOkCs

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David G. Farragut

Once commander of the Mare Island Naval Yard, Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (1801 - 1870) is famous in U.S. Navy tradition for his order at the battle of Mobile Bay during the Civil War: "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead".

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