at the Berkeley Meadow, Eastshore Park, East Bay Regional Park District/California State Parks. Click to enlarge, and enjoy!
When you stand there and read the story, you know you are today in the midst of a grand piece of nature--a mixed grassland similar to those along the water when the first settlers arrived. Today this is a many-sided park for land and marine recreation.
EXPLORE-D!
Thanks, all!
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An interesting historic site managed by the State of California. It tells about the period between the deep indigenous past and the coming of the rapacious Americans in the mid-19th century. For some decades colonial Spaniards and Mexicans controlled parts of coastal California.
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of the San Francisco Bay Area, showing the islands and the early street layouts. Date said to be the 1880s. San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley are still quite small and even these streets are in many cases only imagined settlement, awaiting reality. This map was created for real estate development purposes. One sees the long "mole" that stretched from Oakland's shores out to almost "Goat Island"--today the area covered by the East Span of the Bay Bridge. Goat Island has long been known as Yerba Buena Island and since the 1930s has had an enlarged "made" section known as Treasure Island, site of the Golden Gate Exposition in 1939.
The map is currently on view--along with many other interesting historical documents--in an exhibit at the Berkeley Historical Society. Worth a visit!!
www.berkeleyhistoricalsociety.org/Center-Hours.html
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This piece of equipment is clearly an antique and no longer in use. The school does own a team of draft horses and they engage in some horse farming, but most of it employs modern, sustainable practices.
Read more here:
inside.warren-wilson.edu/~farm/
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NOT MY PHOTO, of course.
This image comes from the Rare Books collection at Cornell University Library.
Acc. #: 15/5/3090.00656.
The caption in Spanish at the top translates (more or less)--
"Chichen: an example with buttresses of feathered serpents." If anyone has a different translation, let's hear it. "Pila" means various things, by my dictionary.
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