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Exhibit Name: Oakland as Seen by Orrin Simmons Family |
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Overview: Surroundings of Bay area pioneer Orrin Simmons' home at Second and Harrison. The family enjoyed Oakland tranquility and the ferry to San Francisco business. Some scenes that he, Hannah, James E. Benjamin F. and William H. viewed. |
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Oakland as Orrin Simmons saw it in his last year. |
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Soon after their move from Berkeley they would have traveled these streets, Orrin pursuing his dam building and irrigation work, and the boys to school. |
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Just to Hannah's taste, this home owned by Mayor Pardee. It was probably built before she returned to Piedmont in 1890 to live out her last five years of life. |
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Among Orrin Simmons' clients for irrigation projects in the 1860s were the Central Valley's Miller & Lux Ranches, who later supplied food for his Oakland neighborhood. |
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Close to home was the Southern Pacific Railroad - unfortunately, not the one the Simmonses had invested in. But it was the easiest way back to Woodstock, Vermont, where the elder son could show off the family's California accomplishments. |
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