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Until 1906, the school faculty had provided care at the City-County Hospital (now the San Francisco General Hospital), but did not have a hospital of its own. Following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, more than 40,000 people were relocated to a makeshift tent city in Golden Gate Park and were treated by the faculty of the Affiliated Colleges.
Oakland's rise to industrial prominence, and its subsequent need for a seaport, led to the digging of a shipping and tidal channel in 1902, which created an island of nearby town Alameda. In 1906, its population doubled with refugees made homeless after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.
Kiehn also found a San Francisco newspaper article published on March 29, 1906, describing the Miles Brothers' intent to film aboard a cable car. [12] In 2011, Richard Greene, an engineer with Bio-Rad Laboratories, published research dating the film to March 24–30, 1906, based on the sun throwing well-defined shadows on the Ferry Building ...
Oakland Long Wharf bought by Central Pacific Railroad. 1869 Railway begins operating. [6] Lake Merritt Wild-Fowl Sanctuary [6] and Oakland Fire Department established. Oakland Long Wharf becomes the western terminus of the First transcontinental railroad. [7] 1871 – Mills Seminary relocates to Oakland. 1872 Brooklyn becomes part of Oakland.
History of Oakland — in Alameda County, East Bay, California. ... Oakland Cable Railway; Oakland firestorm of 1991; Oakland Heritage Alliance; Oakland Long Wharf;
He served on the Vigilance Committee of 1856 in San Francisco (as did Enoch Pardee and Samuel Merritt, two other future Oakland mayors), as well as an alderman and education board member in San Francisco, before moving to Oakland. He prospered in real estate and opened a San Francisco firm, Bovee, Toy, and Co., with his son-in-Iaw George Toy.
This was the last major fire in the city before bombing of WW II. 1327 – Fire of Munich, Germany, destroys one-third of the city, 30 deaths. 1405 – Fire of Bern, Switzerland, destroys 600 houses, over 100 deaths. 1421 – First Great Fire of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 1426 – Hanyang fires in Joseon [3]
San Francisco in ruins after the 1906 earthquake and fire. ... on the wharf at San Francisco, before embarking." ... Photograph commissioned by Oakland Chamber of ...