Oakland, California, USA
1895 - Oakland

Oakland, a beautiful city, capital of Alameda co., Cal., is pleasantly situated on the E. shore of the Bay of San Francisco, 7 miles E. of the city of San Francisco. It is connected with Sacramento by the Central Pacific Rail "d, and is 133 miles S.W. of that capital. It has a healthy and pleasant climate. 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 *y is well lighted, and has wide, well-paved streets. It contains 16 churches, the California Military Academy, the Golden Gate Academy, a convent, a high school, the Female College of the Pacific, the Pacific Theological Seminary (Congregational), an institution for the deaf, dumb, and blind, a court-house which cost $200,000, 2 national gold banks, 2 savings-banks, first-class hotels, and numerous elegant and expensive dwellings. Three daily and 4 weekly newspapers are published here. The streets are provided by nature with a profusion of majestic live-oaks, which are covered with foliage all the year round. The supply of water comes from numerous streams and springs in the adjacent hills, and is pure and inexhaustible. The environs are adorned with gardens, vineyards, and beautiful scenery and drives. Oakland has a good harbor, and great advantages for a commercial city. It has 4 horse-railroads, 3 flouring-mills, 3 planing-mills, 2 potteries, a brass-foundry, 3 tanneries, a jute-bag-factory, &c. This town was incorporated in 1852. Pop. in 1860, 1543; in 1870, 10,500; in 1880, 34,555; in 1890, 48,682.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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