Historical Markers in Alameda County, California
1890 Seawall
1914 Rasmussen House 1990
1920 Moving the World's Cargo
1930 Where the World Comes to Oakland
1943 Fleet City 1946
1946 General Strike
442nd Regimental Combat Team Memorial
930 Pacific Avenue
935 Hearst Avenue
USS Oakland Mast
A Chinese Junk Boat for Oakland
A Haven for Artists
A Land of Many Tribes - We Are Still Here
A Working Waterfront
A Zoo, a Monkey, and a Mansion Here Too!
Alameda City Hall
Alameda City Hall, 1895-96
Alameda County Courthouses
Alameda Creek Water System
Alameda Lodge No. 1015
Alameda Terminus of the 1st Transcontinental Railroad
Alameda: Bay Area Aviation Center
Alamedas First Church
Albany Waterfront History (Pre-1900)
Albany Waterfront History(Post-1900)
Albany World War I Memorial
Allen F. Strutz Veterans Memorial Building
Allenoke Manor
Alviso Adobe
Alviso Adobe Community Park
Amador Valley Hotel
Amelia Mary Earhart
American Bag Co.
American Baptist Seminary of the West - Hobart Hall
American Photoplayer Co.
An Era of Dramatic Change
Annie and Bernard Maybeck House
"Annie's Oak"
Anthony Boucher: Editor and Writer
Antonio Bras Columns
Anza Expedition of 1776
Ardenwood Historic Farm / George Washington Patterson Ranch
Armstrong College Building
Asian Resource Center
ATK Baseball Field
Australian Aviators
Autocar Sales
Bank of Italy Building
Barker Building
Becky Temko Tot Park
Benjamin Ide Wheeler House and Garden
Berkeley City Club
Berkeley City Hall
Berkeley High School Alumni: Bobby Seale, Jean Yonemura Wing, Billy Martin
Berkeley High School Alumni: Chinaka Hodge, Phil Lesh, Joshua Redman, The Lonely Island
Berkeley High School Industrial Arts and Science (G and H Buildings)
Berkeley Municipal Pier
Berkeley Municipal Rose Garden
Berkeley Piano Club
Berkeley Public Library
Berkeley Repertory Theatre: Original Location (1968)
Berkeley Veterans Memorial Grove
Berkeley Y.M.C.A.
Bill's Trading Post and Gem Gallery
Birthplace of Oakland
Birthplace of the Asian American Movement
Black Panther Party Stoplight
Bowens Inn/Higgins Grocery
Burl Toler, Sr.
C. L. Dellums
C.L. Greeno Co.
California & Nevada Railroad
California Cotton Mill
Carnegie Library
Carter Brothers
Casa Peralta
Chabot Dam
Chabot Observatory
Chamber of Commerce / Wells Fargo Bank
Chappell Roland Hayes
Charles P. Howard Terminal
Charles S. Greene Library
Charles W. Woodworth House
Church of St. James the Apostle
Church of the Good Shepherd
City Hall Annex
Claremont Court Gate and Street Markers
Claremont Public Improvements
Clark Kerr Campus
Clark Memorial Bench
Cleveland Cascade
Cloyne Court Hotel
Commemoration of Old Redwood Road from Redwood Canyon
Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
Concannon Vineyard
Connell Motor Company
Corpus Christi Church
County Courthouse
Cresta Blanca Winery
Crossing the San Francisco Bay
Crossroads
Cryer & Sons
D. F. Bernal Building
D.J. Murphy House
Daleys Scenic Park Street Improvenents
Davis-Byrne Building
Davis-Parker Whse.
De Anza Expedition 1775 - 1776
De Anza Expedition 1775 - 1776
Delaware Street Historic District
Dobbel Family
Don Jose Maria Amador
Don Pedro Fages Expedition
Douglas SBD Dauntless
Dr. Henry Gordon McGill House
Dr. Huey P. Newton
Duarte Garage
Dunsmuir House
Early Harbor
Edward A. Brakenridge House
Ehrman General Store
El Camino Rancho San Antonio
El Campanil
Elks Club Building
Ennors Restaurant Building
Essanay Film Studio
Essanay Studio Site
Estuary Industry
Estudillo Home
Eucalyptus Amphitheater
Everett and Marie Glass House
Evolution of a Marine Terminal
Exxon Super Service Station
F.D. Chase Building
Faux Bois Benches
Federal Land Bank
Filtration Basins
First Church of Christ, Scientist
First County Courthouse
First Latitude Sighting of the Golden Gate
First Library Building
First Presbyterian Church
First Presbyterian Church Memorial Chapel
First Successful Non-stop Trans-Pacific Air Flight
First Transcontinental Railroad
First Unitarian Church of Oakland
Flanagan Family
Flight 93 Memorial
Food & Ships
Former Safeway Headquarters
Founding of Mission San Jose
Fourth St. circa 1962
Fox Court
Framåt Lodge #405
Frances Albrier
Francis Kittredge Shattuck Building
Francis Marion Borax Smith
Francisco Solano Alviso Adobe
Frank S. Fennon House
Fullen Market Building
Garden History
Gay 90's Pizzeria
General Strike!
Giant Water Filters
Gilman Hall
Gold Creek
Golden Sheaf Bakery Annex
Got Salt? Without it, No Civilization or Ice Cream!
Grumman F6F Hellcat
Grumman J2F Duck
Hayward Public Library
Heinolds First and Last Chance Saloon
Here, Over Time
Heritage Park & Museums
Heywood Building
Hillside Club
Hillside School
Historic Alameda High School
Historic Best Building
Historic Daniel & Meta Best Home
Historic "Lorin District"
Historic McGee-Spaulding District
Historic McGee-Spaulding District
History of the Alameda Belt Line
History of the Livermore Rodeo
History of the Transbay Ferry
Honcharenkos Sanctuary
Honor Roll
Howard Automobile Company
I.D.E.S. Council Hayward #14
In Memoriam (NSGW WWI Memorial)
In Memory of Col. John Coffee Hays
"In Tribute to Chiura Obata"
Ina Donna Coolbrith, 1841-1928
Indian Rock
J. Gorman & Son Building
J. W. Kottingers Barn
J.H. Wilson House
Jack London
Jack London
Jack London Square Development
Jack Londons Cabin
Jean Sweeney - Alameda's "Little Engine That Could"
Jefferson Square Park
Jensen House
Joaquin Miller
Joaquin Millers Abbey
Joaquin Murrieta and Murrieta's Well
John "Alex" Alexander
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Charter Day Speech
John Hinkel Park
John Muir School
Johnston Building
Jos. H. McCourt / Bruno L. Putzker
Josiah John Rose-Goldsmith House
Juan Bautista de Anza Expedition Campsite #98
Kennedy Tunnel
Key Route Terminal
Key Route Train Station
Kottingers Barn
Ky Eybright Boathouse
La Loma Steps
Lafayette Square Timeline
Lake Chabot Historical Walk
Larkin Locke House
Latham Memorial Fountain Unveiled
Latham Square
Laughlin Moy House
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Leal Tank House
Legend of Lone Tree Cemetery
Leimert Bridge
Leland Stanford Winery
Liberty Hall
Lincoln Park, 1909
Live Oak Lodge U.D
Livermore Flagpole
Livermore Southern Pacific Depot
Livermore Town Hall Jail and Firehouse
Livermore Town Jail
Lone Tree Cemetery
Lone Tree Cemetery Vietnam War Memorial
Longfellow School
Lorin Theater
Lydiksen Building
Makkeweks
Mape Memorial Park
Masonic Temple
Masonic Temple Building
Masters of Navigation
Max Baer
McCreary-Greer House
Meadowlark Dairy - The Dairy Silo
Meadowlark Dairy Dairy Bunkhouse
Meadowlark Dairy Dairy Managers House
Memorial to the Chinese Laborers
Meyers Home
Meyers House
Mills Square Flag Pole
Mission San José
Moe's Books
Morcom Amphitheater of Roses
Mormon Pioneers / Mormon Pioneer Adobes
Morse Block
Mortar Rock
Mountain House School
Moving Shoreline
Mrs. E.P. (Stella) King Building
Murray-Green Homes
Nevis Pavilion
Niles Canyon Railway
Norris Family
North Berkeley Congregational (Grace North) Church
North Branch Berkeley Public Library
Northbrae Public Improvements
NSGW Hall - Eden Parlor No. 113
Oakland Ball Park
Oakland City Hall
Oakland Memorial Park
Oakland Plumbing
Oakland Portal
Oakland Railroad History
Oakland Rails
Oakland War Memorial
Oakland's First Public School
Oakland's First Wharf
Oaklands Chinatowns
Observation Pier
Observatory Hill
Of Fins and Flippers
Ohlone Dog Park
Old St. Raymonds Church
Once a Hilltop Castle
Orchard Lane
Original Residents: The Ohlone / Vicente Peralta's Chosen Place
Origins of Oakland
Pan Am China Clipper
Panoramic Hill
Paramount Theatre
Paths Through a Varied Landscape
PCR Park
Peets Coffee & Tea
Peralta Hacienda
Peralta Home Alta Mira Club
Peralta House
Philadelphia Quartz Company
Piedmont Art Gallery
Piedmont Park History Trail
Piedmont Springs Clubhouse & Cafe
Piedmont Springs Hotel
Pioneer Schoolhouse & Chapel
Pleasanton Cheese Factory
Pony Express Ferry “Oakland”
Poultry Producers
Prehistoric Indian Mound
Preservation Park
Rainbow Trout Species Identified
Rancho El Valle de San Jose
Rancho San Antonio
Rancho San Lorenzo
Rear Admiral R.J. "Bear" Arnold, U.S.N.
Riches from Seawater and Sun
Robert Hale Merriman Residence
Robert Livermore
Rod R. Fallon
Ron Dellums
Roos Bros. Building
Roots From Another Land
Rose Walk
Rose Wave
Rowell Ranch
Rumford's Pharmacy
S & W Fine Foods
S.H. Kress Co. Store
Safeway Stores
Saint Paul's Hospital
San Leandro Courthouse Site
San Leandro Oyster Beds
San Leandro Cherry Festivals
San Leandro Industry
San Lorenzo Pioneer Cemetery
San Pablo Tennis Club
Santa Fe Railroad Tracks
Santa Fe Railway Depot
Seventh Street
Shattuck Square
Shepherd Canyon Highway That Almost Was
Signs of Change
Sister City Program
Site of Albany Hospital
Site of Albany's First City Hall
Site of Albany's First Firehouse
Site of Albany's First Official Public Building
Site of Blossom Rock Navigation Trees
Site of Charles MacGregor's Office
Site of College of California
Site of David Parks Studio
Site of First Post Office
Site of First Public School in Castro Valley
Site of Garbage Wars
Site of Hunrick Grocery Store
Site of John Hinkel Livery Stable, 1900
Site of Miller's Barn
Site of Napoleon Bonaparte Byrne House
Site of Presentation High School and Convent
Site of Pump House - Peet Brothers/Colgate Palmolive
Site of Reid's Records
Site of Saint Mary's College
Site of the Dougherty Station Hotel
Site of the Kellogg School
Site of the Nations First Successful Beet Sugar Factory
Site of Thousand Oaks School
Site of Veterans' Memorial
Skippy Peanut Butter
Soda Works Building
South Berkeley Bank
Spengers Fish Grotto
St. Augustine's Episcopal Church
Star Grocery
Still on Patrol
Stockmen's Monument
Stockmen's Park
Strand (Elmwood) Theater
Studio Building 1905-06
Sulphur Springs Grotto
Sunol
Taming the Waters Flow
Tehan Family
Temple of Wings
The 1923 Berkeley Fire
The Black Panther's First Office
The Cascade
The Chadbourne Carriage House
The Creation of a Park
The Gables
The Green Store
The Heritage House
The History of the Site of the Shade Tree
The Japanese Teahouse
The Jimmy Doolittle Pier Alameda Naval Air Station
The Kelsey Ranch
The Lathams
The Lawrence 37-Inch Cyclotron
The Little Brown Church
The Maze
The McConaghy Estate
The Meek Mansion
The Monument Loop: A Legacy
The Music They Played on 7th Street
The Oakland - San Francisco Bay Bridge
The Palmtag Building
The Pardee House
The Pleasanton Hotel
The Pleasanton Sign
The Poetry Garden
The Port of Oakland
The Railroad History of Lake Temescal
The Railroad History of Shepherd Canyon
The Roxy Theatre
The Shepherd Canyon Corridor Plan
The Shinn Family Nursery and Ranch
The Shorey House
The Shuman Block
The War With Spain Memorial
They Brought Alameda the News
Thomas and Isabelle Scott Home
Thousand Oaks Neighborhood and Urns
Timber Wagon
To Build a Dam
Tolliver Airship
Toveri Tupa Finnish Hall
Training Wall
Transporting the Water
Trestle Glen
Tunnel No. 1 Control Shaft
Tupper & Reed Building
U.S. Maritime Officers Memorial
Ukrania
Ukrania
Union Point
United Grocers
United States Post Office
Uptown Saturday Night
USS Maine Memorial
USS Oakland CL-AA 95
USS Potomac
Vallejo Flour Mill
Vallejo Homesite
Veteran's Memorial Building
Veterans Memorial Building
Vought A-7A Corvair II
Voyage of the Brooklyn
W.A. Mitchell House
W.P. Fuller & Co.
Washington Hotel
Water & Rails / Brooklyn Basin
Webster House
Wente Bros. Winery
West Oakland and Prescott
Western Pacific Mole
Western Pacific Railroad Depot
Western Pacific RR
Western States
Whittier School
Wild Oats Underdone Asparagas Boil
William Byron Rumford (February 2, 1908 - June 12, 1986)
William Keith (1836-1911)
William M. Mendenhall 1823 1911 / De Anza Expedition Campsite
Wind-Powered Archimedes Screw-Pump
Working in the Salt Ponds
Workingmans Hall
World War I Memorial
World War II War Memorial
Yem-Po: Chinese Labor Camp
“A People's History of Telegraph Avenue“
“The Bankers Building”
About Alameda County
Alameda County Timeline
Alameda County, located in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, has a rich history dating back thousands of years. The area was originally inhabited by Native American tribes, including the Ohlone people, who lived along the shores and in the hills of the region. They thrived on a diet consisting of fish, game, and a variety of plants.
In the late 18th century, Spanish explorers, led by Juan Bautista de Anza, arrived in the area. The Spanish established missions, including Mission San Jose, and began to establish settlements. The area eventually came under Mexican rule following Mexico's independence from Spain in 1821. During this period, the land was primarily used for cattle ranching and agriculture.
In the mid-19th century, the California Gold Rush brought a wave of settlers to the region, including Alameda County. Settlers came in search of gold, but many also recognized the potential for agriculture and industry in the area. The county became an important transportation hub with the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad and the Oakland Long Wharf, facilitating trade and commerce.
As the 20th century dawned, Alameda County experienced significant growth and development. The city of Oakland emerged as a major urban center, with a thriving port and a diverse population. The county also saw the establishment of various industries, including shipping, manufacturing, and automobile manufacturing. Alameda County played a pivotal role during World War II as a strategic military location, hosting naval bases and shipyards.
Today, Alameda County is a vibrant and diverse region, home to numerous cities and communities. It is known for its cultural institutions, tech industry, beautiful landscapes, and diverse population. The county continues to evolve, with a focus on sustainability, innovation, and quality of life for its residents.
In the late 18th century, Spanish explorers, led by Juan Bautista de Anza, arrived in the area. The Spanish established missions, including Mission San Jose, and began to establish settlements. The area eventually came under Mexican rule following Mexico's independence from Spain in 1821. During this period, the land was primarily used for cattle ranching and agriculture.
In the mid-19th century, the California Gold Rush brought a wave of settlers to the region, including Alameda County. Settlers came in search of gold, but many also recognized the potential for agriculture and industry in the area. The county became an important transportation hub with the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad and the Oakland Long Wharf, facilitating trade and commerce.
As the 20th century dawned, Alameda County experienced significant growth and development. The city of Oakland emerged as a major urban center, with a thriving port and a diverse population. The county also saw the establishment of various industries, including shipping, manufacturing, and automobile manufacturing. Alameda County played a pivotal role during World War II as a strategic military location, hosting naval bases and shipyards.
Today, Alameda County is a vibrant and diverse region, home to numerous cities and communities. It is known for its cultural institutions, tech industry, beautiful landscapes, and diverse population. The county continues to evolve, with a focus on sustainability, innovation, and quality of life for its residents.
Alameda County Timeline
This timeline provides a glimpse into the major events and milestones that have shaped the history of Alameda County, California.
- 1853: Alameda County is created from a large portion of Contra Costa County
- 1855: The city of Oakland is incorporated
- 1868: The University of California is founded in Oakland
- 1872: The first transcontinental railroad connection to the East Coast is completed in Oakland
- 1874: The city of Berkeley is incorporated
- 1900: The city of Fremont is incorporated
- 1906: The devastating San Francisco earthquake also affects Alameda County
- 1916: Alameda County courthouse in Oakland is completed
- 1936: The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is opened
- 1966: The Black Panther Party is founded in Oakland
- 1970: The Alameda County Sheriff's Office is consolidated
- 1997: The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory opens in Livermore