Description * Crossbar length: 11.9 m
* The cross which was built to commemorate the early California pioneers replaced a seies of wooden cross that were erected at the
site and which were burned down (the last one in 1931)
* In 1991 the city of San Francisco was sued by the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Jewish Congress, and Americans United for Separation of Church and State over
its ownership of the cross and after a long legal battle and loss at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the cross and the surrounding area was auctioned in 1997.
It was purchased for $26,000 by The Council of Armenian American Organizations of Northern California, which installed a bronze plaque at the base memorializing the victims of the 1915 Armenian genocide.
This plaque, which weighed 73 kilograms, was stolen in the following years and replace by a new plaque in 2008
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