Alcatraz Island
Prompted by the cry of "Gold!" at Sutter's Mill in 1848, thousands of fortune hunters set out from the East Coast and rounded Cape Horn on their way to San Francisco and the gold fields beyond. After several vessel... lighthousefriends.com
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
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
Casa Peralta
Three descendants of land grant recipient Lus Maria Peralta lived in this home. In 1926, Herminia Peralta Dargie (pictured above) remodeled the home in the style of a Spanish villa. Tiles depict the story of Don Quixote, and ad... 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
Peralta House
First brick house built in Alameda County. Constructed 1860 by W. R. Toler for Ignacio Peralta. Early San Leandro Spanish settler, whose father, Don Luis Maria Peralta, received land grant from Spanish Governor Don Pablo Vicent... hmdb.org
Alameda Museum- Alameda, Ca
"Alameda is a unique island community located in the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area. We offer permanent displays of Alameda history, the only rotating gallery showcasing local Alameda artists and student artwork, as ... waymarking.com
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
Yerba Buena
It has been said that the small island situated roughly midway between Oakland and San Francisco has had as many names as a modern divorce, and also in like fashion, has reclaimed a former name. The island was repo... 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
Ashurbanipal Monument
The Assyrians formed one of the earliest great empires in the world. Their civilization dates from 2700 B.C. with the important cultural centers at Ashur and Nineveh north of modern Baghdad. Beginning as a river civilization in... hmdb.org