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Oak Glen Park. This page shows a list of parks in Oakland, California. [1]25th Street Mini Park — 0.28 acres (1,100 m 2) — 25th Street, Oakland, CA; 85th Avenue Mini Park — 0.33 acres (1,300 m 2) — 1712 85th Avenue, Oakland, CA 94621
Rancho San Antonio, also known as the Peralta Grant, was a 44,800-acre (181 km 2) land grant by Governor Pablo Vicente de Solá, the last Spanish governor of California, to Don Luís María Peralta, a sergeant in the Spanish Army and later, commissioner of the Pueblo of San José, in recognition of his forty years of service.
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 ...
San Antonio is a large district in Oakland, California, encompassing the land east of Lake Merritt to Sausal Creek.It is one of the most diverse areas of the city. [1] It takes its name from Rancho San Antonio, the name of the land as granted to Luís María Peralta by the last Spanish governor of California.
Temescal was the site of agriculture, cattle grazing and greenhouses when, in the 1890s, an opera house was built in parkland north of the creek crossing at 51st street. The area grew and was developed into Idora Park, the earliest "trolley park" in the East Bay. In 1929 the amusement park was closed and was razed in 1930.
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
Oakland is a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California.It is the county seat and most populous city in Alameda County, with a population of 440,646 in 2020. [13]
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 ...