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The city and its environs quickly grew with the railroads, becoming a major rail terminal in the late 1860s and 1870s. In 1868, the Central Pacific constructed the Oakland Long Wharf at Oakland Point, the site of today's Port of Oakland. The Daily Alta California recognized this meant Oakland was to become the "future Jersey City of the Pacific ...
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The San Francisco and Oakland Railroad had built a station at San Antonio. [1] When the Central Pacific Railroad took over the line in 1870, the name was changed to Brooklyn. [1] In 1872, voters approved their city's annexation by Oakland. [1] Afterward, when the Southern Pacific Railroad took over the rail line in 1883, the Brooklyn station ...
The Oakland Public Museum was originally housed in the Camron-Stanford House from 1910 to 1967. The house is now a separate museum. The Oakland Public Museum opened in the nearby Camron-Stanford House in 1910. Its first curator, Charles P. Wilcomb, gathered a collection representing two aspects of California cultural history, Native Americans ...
Oakland Chinese Presbyterian Church & Annex: 265-73 8th Street May 3, 1994 116 St. Paul's Episcopal Church: 114 Montecito Avenue May 24, 1994 117 University High School / North Oakland Senior Center: 5714 Martin Luther King Jr. Way 118 Temple Sinai: 362 28th Street December 13, 1994 119 Oakland Museum of California: 1000 Oak Street
Long before it became the go-to borough for hipsters and commuters, Brooklyn was once America’s third largest city, independent and separate from Manhattan and the City of New York, explains ...
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1912 – Oakland School Women's Club [9] and Children's Hospital founded. 1913 – Oakland Yacht Club established. [6] 1914 Oakland Technical High School established. Oakland City Hall and Civic Auditorium built. 1917 – Joaquin Miller Park established. [6] 1920 – Population: 216,261. 1922 – Snow Museum of Natural History opens.