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One of many old stone walls found around the southern and eastern San Francisco Bay in California, this one near San Jose. The East Bay Walls, also known as the Berkeley Mystery Walls, are a misnomer, as many such walls can be found throughout the hills surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area, and extend as far as Chico, Red Bluff and Montague.
An East Bay wall crosses Tomales Point, in the Point Reyes National Recreation Area. It's faintly visible on Google Earth. I took some photos, uploaded them to Panoramio, tagged the location.
It is run by the Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department and is located in the chaparral and grassland foothills of Diablo Range east of the Santa Clara Valley. Monument Peak can be accessed through trails in the park. The park's recreational facilities include a hang gliding and paragliding area, a dog park, and horseback riding areas.
The Berkeley Hills are a range of the Pacific Coast Ranges, and overlook the northeast side of the valley that encompasses San Francisco Bay.They were previously called the "Contra Costa Range/Hills" [2] [3] (from the original Spanish Sierra de la Contra Costa), but with the establishment of Berkeley and the University of California, the name was updated by geographers and gazetteers.
If there are no columns or other divisions but there are regularly-spaced windows, each window in a wall is counted as a bay. For example, Mulberry Fields, a Georgian style building in Maryland, United States, is described as "5 bay by 2 bay," meaning "5 windows at the front and 2 windows at the sides". A recess in a wall, such as a bay window. [2]
B. Barrington Hall (Berkeley, California) Berkeley City Club; Berkeley City College; Berkeley Community Theater; Berkeley High School (California) Berkeley High School Campus Historic District
Preliminary surveys to lay out the route of the planned Bay Bridge were held in April 1931. [2] Dedication ceremonies were held on February 24, 1932, [3] and by April 1932, the final design for the Bay Bridge, including the single-bore tunnel through Yerba Buena Island, had been completed and submitted for approval. [4]
Oakland Long Wharf, San Francisco East Bay In the San Francisco Bay Area in California , there were several moles, combined causeways and wooden piers or trestles extending from the eastern shore and utilized by various railroads, such as the Key System , Southern Pacific Railroad (two), and Western Pacific Railroad : the Alameda Mole , the ...