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Example of early architecture in the Lake Merritt neighborhood |
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The Moses Chase house, built in 1856, on land purchased from the Peralta family was demolished in 1946. |
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Take the horse drawn trolley from Lake Merritt to the Fruitvale District, which was not part of Oakland until 1910. |
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Opened in 1883 the California Cotton Mills was located in brick buildings,m some of which are still standing, near the Embarcadero. |
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"Miseryville" was located at the foot of 19th Ave. during the depression years. |
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The 1891 Warren Dutton house was a wedding gift to his daughter. It still stands at the corner of International Blvd. and 6th Ave. |
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Embacadero Cove is the site of the earliest waterfront activity on Oakland. Cattle hides from the Peralta herds, redwoods from the Oakland hills in the mid-1800s. Later, the site of the Alaska Packers sending salmon to distant markets. Government Island is a Coast Guard base where Coast Guard ships can frequently be seen. |
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Badger Park was an early beginning to a long history of recreational uses of the Oakland Waterfront. The competition for waterfront space between commercial interests, residential interests, and recreational interests is long standing, and continues today. |
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The University of California has used the Estuary for boating activities for many years. The Ky Ebright Boathouse, home of Cal Crews, is located a little further south near the Fruitvale Bridge. |
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A cotton gin, similar to the ones in this photograph, currently sits outside the brick factory builing at the end of Livingston St. Right across the street is the now boarded-up entrance to the freeway pedestrian underpass that allowed cotton mill workers living in Jingletown to get to work. |
