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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 ...
Original Location: 702 11th Street Present Location: Preservation Park. April 14, 1981 48 Charles S. Greene Library / African American Museum and Library at Oakland: 659 14th Street April 14, 1981 49 Southern Pacific Mole: 7th Street April 14, 1981 50 John C. McMullen House: 2748 Grande Vista Avenue May 5, 1981 51
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.
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.
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.
Kellersberger's Map is a plat map created in 1854 of Rancho San Antonio on the northeastern shore lands, the Contra Costa of San Francisco Bay, in present day Alameda County, California. The area surveyed today comprises the entire extent of the cities of Berkeley and Albany , and the northern part of Oakland, including its downtown and waterfront.
Peralta Park — 4.08 acres (16,500 m 2) — 94 East 10th Street, Oakland, CA Piedmont Plaza Park — 0.03 acres (120 m 2 ) — 4182 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, CA 94611 Pine Knoll Park — 1.33 acres (5,400 m 2 ) — Lakeshore Ave & Hanover Ave, Oakland, CA
The Black Panthers grew out of this resistance and West Oakland became the center of the Black Panthers in the late 1960s. Their main office was on Peralta Street, and they distributed free breakfasts to children in St. Augustine's church on West Street. DeFremery Park was the site of Black Panther rallies and social programs.