Berkeley

The Huchiun Ohlone people were the first inhabitants of the land that is today Berkeley. Early in the 1800s, the 47,000-acre ranches of the Peralta family stretched into the hills from San Leandro Creek to El Cerrito Creek. Only a scant 50 years later, newly arrived American settlers established the community of Ocean View on the bay, and in 1860, land nestled into the foothills was dedicated for the establishment of the future University of California. With a university to the east and Ocean View to the west, the threat of annexation by the larger town of Oakland finally brought the two communities together into one, and "Athens of the West," as Berkeley was known, became a municipality in 1878.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Published: 05/06/2009
ISBN: 9780738569420
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.50w x 0.40d

Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2010 pg. 76