Oakland, 1861

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"Oakland is a pretty place springing up with residences of San Francisco merchants. It is like Brooklyn from New York only it is farther, the bay being some seven or eight miles wide there. Pretty oaks are scattered over the sandy flat."
 
–William H. Brewer, US Geological Survey, 1861.
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