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The Joaquin Miller House, also known as The Abbey, is a historic house in Joaquin Miller Park, a public park in the Oakland Hills area of Oakland, California, United States. A crude, vaguely Gothic structure, it was the home of poet Joaquin Miller from 1886 until his death in 1913. Miller was one of the nation's first poets to write about the ...
Montclair (also known as the Montclair District or Montclair Village) is a hillside neighborhood in Oakland, California, United States.Montclair is located along the western slope of the Oakland Hills from a valley formed by the Hayward Fault to the upper ridge of the hills.
Joaquin Miller Park is a large open space park in the Oakland Hills owned and operated by the city of Oakland, California. It is named after early California writer and poet Joaquin Miller , who bought the land in the 1880s, naming it "The Hights" [ sic ], and lived in the house preserved as the Joaquin Miller House .
Once it crosses the Stanislaus River and enters San Joaquin County, the route is locally signed as Santa Fe Road. At this point, it continues its parallel path with the BNSF rail line. About 4.3 mi after entering San Joaquin County, the route then enters Escalon and becomes Main Street for 0.7 mi before reaching SR 120. CR J7 very briefly co ...
Lockwood Gardens, is a neighborhood and housing project located in East Oakland, California, on 65th and International BoulevardThe neighborhood lies at an elevation of 25 feet (6 m) and is located less than a mile from the Oakland Coliseum.
Cincinnatus Heine Miller [a] (/ ˌ s ɪ n s ɪ ˈ n eɪ t ə s ˈ h aɪ n ə / SIN-sin-AY-təs HY-nə; September 8, 1837 – February 17, 1913), better known by his pen name Joaquin Miller (/ hw ɑː ˈ k iː n / whah-KEEN), was an American poet, author, and frontiersman.
The park's namesake and principal founder was Joseph Knowland, who served on the California State Park Commission from 1934 to 1960 and was its chairman from 1938.Under his influence, the State of California purchased 453 acres (1.83 km 2) for $660,000 on a matching grant basis.
Monta Vista Elementary School (now Monta Vista Park; a few buildings remain and are used by Cupertino as an auxiliary Recreation Center) [15] Carol Murdock Elementary School (closed 1980; reopened 1995 when the Portal alternative program was moved, making room for the Collins Elementary transition and build out of Lawson Middle School on the ...