Oakland, California, USA
1906

Oakland, a city, capital of Almeda co., Cal., is pleasantly situated on the E. shore of the Bay of San Francisco, 6 mile E. of the city of San Francisco, on the Southern Pacific R. and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Coast Lines. It has a healthy and pleasant climate and is a favorite place of residence of San Francisco merchants. It was the original seat of the University of California, which has been removed to Berkeley, about 4 miles distant. Large steam ferry-boats ply frequently between Oakland and San Francisco. The city is the seat of the California Military Academy, California College, Pacific Theological Seminary (Congregational), and various other collegiate institutions. It has numerous elegant mansions. The streets are provided by nature with a profusion of majestic live-oaks, which are covered with foliage all year round. The environs are adorned with gardens, vineyards, and picturesque drives. Oakland has a good harbor and great advantages for a commercial city. Among its manufacturing and constructive industries are extensive iron-works, foundries and machine-shops, smelting and metallurgical works, canneries, cotton, flouring and planing-mills, tanneries, manufactures of electric cables, etc. Pop. in 1860, 1543; in 1870, 10,500; in 1880, 34,555; in 1890, 48,682; in 1900, 66,960.

Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906

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