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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.
In 1930, the Olmsted Brothers and Ansel F. Hall created a "Report on proposed park reservations for East Bay cities, California" [3] The EBRPD was founded in 1934, [4] and acquired its first land two years later, when the East Bay Municipal Utility District sold 2,166 acres (877 ha) of its surplus land.
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.
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 ...
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
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.
The creek and Shattuck's home were situated along what is now Allston Way. In 1866, the College Homestead Association, an organization established to raise funds for the new site of the College of California, filed a plat map with the object of selling parcels of land near the site of the present University of California. This map proposed ...