Pardee Home Museum
Guided tours of the home invite visitors to learn about local history. Because all of the furnishings and collections are original and authentic, without exception, the museum offers a remarkable look at the life of th... heritagesites.com
Beth Custer Ensemble W/ Conspiracy Of Venus
East Brother
As vessels enter the Golden Gate bound for the Sacramento or San Joaquin Rivers, they first pass through San Francisco Bay, and then head north through San Pablo Strait and into San Pablo Bay. Two-mile-wide San Pab... lighthousefriends.com
Lightship Relief Wlv 605
Construction on WLV 605 began at Rice Brothers Shipyard in Boothbay Harbor, Maine on March 1, 1949. Robert Rice, who along with his father and roughly 150 other men were kept busy by the work, recalls that the ship... lighthousefriends.com
Uss Potomac
Completed in 1934, the Coast Guard Cutter Electra was converted to the presidential yacht and commissioned as a U.S. Navy Vessel, USS Potomac, in 1936. The 165-foot ship, which weighs 376 gross tons and has a cruising speed of ... hmdb.org
Golden Sheaf Bakery Annex
Listed on the National Record of Historic Places In 1877, English immigrant John G. Wright founded the Golden Sheaf, Berkeley's first wholesale/retail bakery. The original bakery, with a public dining room, stood around the cor... hmdb.org
Martinez-benicia Ferry
Founded by Dr. Robert Semple in 1847, the Martinez-Benicia ferry was the first established and longest operating ferry service in the S.F. Bay Area. In 1850 Oliver Coffin took over the operation and with his brothers purchased ... hmdb.org
First Unitarian Church Of Oakland
Designed in 1889 by Walter J. Mathews, this solid masonry Romanesque church departed radically from California's traditional Gothic wood frame construction. Noted for its world famous stained glass windows produced by Goodhue o... hmdb.org
Church Of The Good Shepherd
This is Berkeley's oldest remaining church building and the oldest church in the East Bay still in continuous use by its founding congregation. The one-story Victorian Gothic-style building was built here on what was Bristol St... hmdb.org
African American Museum And Library
The African American Museum and Library at Oakland shares the historical and cultural experiences of African Americans in California and the West. The second floor museum regularly hosts traveling and original exhibiti... heritagesites.com
Contra Costa County Courthouse
County Seat Since April 25, 1851 Martinez Historical Marker I (Marker Number I.) hmdb.org
Oakland Harbor
The arrival of the Central Pacific railroad terminus at Oakland in 1869 heightened the need for a nearby link to shipping in San Francisco Bay. Consequently, two piers that were spaced 750 feet and extended two mil... lighthousefriends.com
Carquinez Strait
In the mid 1800s, ship traffic from San Francisco Bay inland to the Napa, San Joaquin, and Sacramento Rivers increased greatly, due to two main factors: 1) the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill, which led to a flo... lighthousefriends.com
Preservation Park
Oakland in the late 19th century was a thriving waterfront city, the second largest in the state. A center of commerce and industry, it was also known for advanced notions of civic improvement. Public schools and academies, con... hmdb.org
Jeremiah Cutler Sullivan Grave Site
Civil War Union Brigadier General. Born in Madison, Indiana, he entered the United States Navy as a midshipman in 1848, serving on 4 different vessels before resigning 6 years later. The son of a justice of the Indiana su... findagrave.com
Northbrae Public Improvements
Berkeley's Northbrae residential subdivision was opened in 1907 by the Mason-McDuffie Company, John Galen Howard - then Supervising Architect of the University of California - designed the Circle and the stairways, benches, and... hmdb.org