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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DEV_piedmont-springs-clubhouse-cafe_Piedmont-CA.html
On Saturday, May 5, 1898, a gala benefit for the Ladies' Relief Society marked the opening of the Piedmont Springs Park by Frank C. Havens. Musicians played in a thatched bandstand while partygoers strolled through lighted pathways. Many guest din…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DEF_world-war-i-memorial_Piedmont-CA.html
A Memorial
Erected to the boys of Piedmont who gave their lives in the World War
Egbert Williams Beach · Henry Augustus Butters · Otto Julius Carlsen · Frank Jay Field · Thomas Edward Graves · Carl Castlema…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DEE_piedmont-springs-hotel_Piedmont-CA.html
The Piedmont Springs Hotel was built by Walter Blair in 1872. The two-story white clapboard building had 20 bedrooms, two suites and five dining rooms, and the Grand Saloon. The 1887 cottages were added to increase capacity.
At 9:15 a.m. on No…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DED_faux-bois-benches_Piedmont-CA.html
In 1877, a prospectus for home sites in Piedmont Park showed a rustic wooden bench near the Piedmont Springs grotto. This bench began a tradition which was continued when Frank C. Havens renovated the park in 1890s, installing not only rustic benc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DEC_piedmont-park-history-trail_Piedmont-CA.html
In 1867 the pink mineral springs which oozed from Bushy Dell Canyon began to attract visitors to Piedmont Park and the surrounding community. Generation after generation the park has changed to reflect the community that surrounds it, creating lay…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DDX_honor-roll_Piedmont-CA.html
World War IEgbert Williams Beach · Henry Augustus Butters · Otto Julius Carlsen · Frank Jay Field · Thomas Edward Graves · Carl Castlemayne Jones · Hunter McClure
World War IIGeorge David Anderson &midd…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DDW_key-route-train-station_Oakland-CA.html
On this spot on June 1, 1904, the first Key Route electric train arrived to be welcomed by a crowd of excited residents. From a new ferry pier on the bay off Emeryville it had brought officials and guests to a dedication ceremony here. Key founder…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DCF_chappell-roland-hayes_Oakland-CA.html
Community activist and environmentalist, Chappell Hayes was the driving force behind the Clean Air Alternative Coalition which successfully convinced CalTrans to re-route the new Cypress freeway away from West Oakland neighborhoods. Mr. Hayes deve…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DBZ_western-pacific-mole_Oakland-CA.html
On a January morning in 1906, two hundred workmen from Western Pacific Railway and thirty armed "company soldiers" landed on the north training wall and began laying track. Although the City of Oakland had invited this action, it was considered a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DBY_training-wall_Oakland-CA.html
This stone wall you see before you is a partial replica of the north training wall, one of two historic jetties called "training walls" because they were designed to direct the forces of the ebb tide to scour Oakland's shipping channel and keep it…