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Oakland is the academic and healthcare center of Pittsburgh and one of the city's major cultural centers. Home to three universities, museums, hospitals, shopping venues, restaurants, and recreational activities, this section of the city also includes two city-designated historic districts: the mostly residential Schenley Farms Historic District and the predominantly institutional Oakland ...
Downtown and West Oakland are located entirely in the flatlands, while North and East Oakland incorporate lower hills and flatlands neighborhoods. This hills/flatlands division extends beyond Oakland's borders into neighboring cities in the East Bay's urban core such as Berkeley, Hayward, San Leandro, and Richmond.
1857 map of Oakland. In 1851, three men—Horace Carpentier, Edson Adams, and Andrew Moon—began developing what is now downtown Oakland. [25] In 1852, the Town of Oakland was incorporated by the state legislature. [26] During this time, Oakland had 75–100 inhabitants, two hotels, a wharf, two warehouses, and only cattle trails.
The Telegraph Road followed the route of present-day Telegraph Avenue from Downtown Oakland to Temescal, then ran along what is now the route of Claremont Avenue up to the summit of the Berkeley Hills where it became Fish Ranch Road, named some time after 1870, the year the Oakland Trout Company incorporated its fish and frog farm in the vicinity.
Map Alameda County: 001: Oakland: 1853: Contra Costa and Santa Clara: The oak and other trees, once abundant in the region; alameda is Spanish for "avenue shaded by trees" or "cottonwood grove". Charter 1,622,188: 738 sq mi (1,911 km 2) Alpine County: 003: Markleeville: 1864: Amador, El Dorado, Calaveras, Mono and Tuolumne
Aerial view of Lake Merritt and downtown Oakland, with the San Francisco Bay, and the beginning of Bay Bridge in the upper left background An outdoor milonga (tango dance party) at the restored gazebo near Children's Fairyland in Lakeside Park. Measure DD, a $198 million Oakland City park bond measure, passed with 80% voter approval in 2002.
West Oakland is a neighborhood situated in the northwestern corner of Oakland, California, United States, situated west of Downtown Oakland, south of Emeryville, and north of Alameda. The neighborhood is located along the waterfront at the Port of Oakland and at the eastern end of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge .
Vicente's home was situated along Temescal Creek near what is today the intersection of 55th Street and Telegraph Avenue in North Oakland. The route of this early predecessor road, which came to be called the "Temescal Road", [3] is depicted on the first official plat map of the area, Kellersberger's Map. A trace of it survives today as Racine ...