In 1977, this district elected the first openly gay politician—Harvey Milk—to public office (San Francisco Board of Supervisors).

[5] In 1845 José de Jesús Noé was granted Rancho San Miguel, four thousand acres (16 km2) stretching from Twin Peaks into Noe and Eureka valleys.

[6] Most residents were working and lower-middle-class tradesmen, small business owners, civil servants, builders, and artisans, with Irish, German, British, and Scandinavian immigrants, as well as some old-stock Americans living in the neighborhood.

The momentum continued after the completion of Twin Peaks Tunnel in 1918 and the Municipal Railway's J Church streetcar line in 1917.

[7] The Eureka Valley branch of the San Francisco Public Library opened in 1902 at the corner of Noe and Seventeenth streets.