Mrs Eliza Hurd De Wolf was arrested near here on Larkin St. in July of 1866 for wearing pants in enforcement of the 1863 law passed by San Francisco's Board of Supervisors criminalising appearing in public in "a dress not belonging to his or her sex". This was one of the first such arrests in USA. The next day Mrs De Wolf appeared in court wearing the same pants and was acquitted due to an eloquent defence by her husband, who demonstrated that her pants were women's pants and not at all masculine in appearance.