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Piedmont is a small city located in Alameda County, California, United States, enclaved by the city of Oakland. Its residential population was 11,270 at the 2020 census. [7] The name comes from the region of Piedmont in Italy, and it means 'foothill'. Piedmont was incorporated in 1907, and was developed significantly in the 1920s and 1930s.
Piedmont became a charter city under the laws of the State of California on December 18, 1922. On February 27, 1923, voters adopted the charter, which can only be changed by another vote of the people. By the 1920s, Frank Havens had died and Piedmont Park was on the path towards subdivision.
Piedmont High School is a public high school located in Piedmont, California, United States, and is one of two high schools in the Piedmont Unified School District. [3] Designed by architect W.H. Weeks, the school was built in 1921 in a neoclassical design, part of the same plan that built the Piedmont city's Exedra.
Piedmont, California is a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. It is located in Alameda County, California and is completely surrounded by the ...
Piedmont High School (California) alumni (5 P) Pages in category "People from Piedmont, California" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total.
It was the city's second elementary school and it preceded the building of Piedmont High School in 1921. [1] The school was named in honor of Egbert W. Beach, the first man from Piedmont to die in World War I. [2] Frank C. Havens Elementary School: originally built in 1908, a year after the establishment of Piedmont as a city. The city's first ...
The school is located next to the joint building of Millennium High School and Piedmont High School. It overlooks Witter Field and has a view of the west side of Piedmont, of Lake Merritt and Oakland, and, when there is little fog, the Bay and San Francisco. Located on Magnolia Avenue, the middle school is opposite the Piedmont Recreation ...
Piedmont Avenue also has "the Bay Area's Book Row," with multiple independent bookstores concentrated within a six-block radius; [9] the Piedmont Theatre, which is the oldest still-operating theater in Oakland (built in 1917); [10] and the 1893 ice cream parlor Fentons Creamery, which was featured in Pixar's 2009 movie Up.