High Water Mark

Historical marker location:

777 San Anselmo Avenue, San Anselmo, California

( Marker is on San Anselmo Avenue, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 2014

December 31, 2005.

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.