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Central Pacific ferry El Capitan was the largest ferry on San Francisco Bay when built in 1868. [5] Ferry Berkeley (served 1898–1958) at the San Diego Maritime Museum. The first railroad ferries on San Francisco Bay were established by the San Francisco and Oakland Railroad and the San Francisco and Alameda Railroad (SF&A), which were taken over by the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) in 1870 ...
Ruins of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ferry pier, 2015 1948 map of Ferry Point, labeled here as Point Richmond. Ferry Point is a cape on the San Francisco Bay in western Richmond, California, United States. Once the Northern California terminal for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, the area has been developed as a regional ...
Climate change in California has lengthened the fire season and made it more extreme from the middle of the 20th century. [4] [5]Since the early 2010s, wildfires in California have grown more dangerous because of the accumulation of wood fuel in forests, higher population, and aging and often poorly maintained electricity transmission and distribution lines, particularly in areas serviced by ...
A massive blaze erupted at one of the world’s largest lithium battery storage facilities in wildfire-ravaged California, forcing some 1,500 residents to evacuate their homes as toxic smoke ...
Point Reyes California. After the California exploration ships were built, Cabrillo and his mixed crews of conquistadors, Spanish and untrained Native American sailors totaling about 200 men, carefully made their way north from Navidad, Mexico up the Pacific coast starting on 17 June 1542. They took enough supplies to last about two years.
Tunnel Fire - 2,900 structures burned in Alameda County, 1991 Cedar Fire - 2,820 structures burned in San Diego County, 2003 North Complex Fire - 2,352 structures burned in Butte, Plumas and Yuba ...
This post-disaster period should be an inflection point for government officials to take a hard look at how to speed up much-needed housing everywhere across the city and county. Editorial: Fires ...
The Oakland Long Wharf, in 1878. The first use of the site for boats was in 1852, when Gibbons' Wharf was constructed at Gibbons' Point, westward into San Francisco Bay.In 1862, Gibbons' Point was renamed Oakland Point, and the wharf was first used as a ferry landing as part of the San Francisco and Oakland Railroad service.