Walnut Creek Library

Historical marker location:

1629 North Broadway, Walnut Creek, California

( Marker is on North Broadway near Civic Drive, on the right.)

1630 N. Boadway. 1961.

The first female mayor in the U.S. was elected in California in 1887. Susanna M. Salter was elected mayor of Argonia, Kansas, but she was born in California and later moved to Kansas with her husband.