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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10ZW_site-of-pump-house-peet-brothers-colgate-palmolive_Berkeley-CA.html
In the early 20th century, a thriving manufacturing district grew up in southwest Berkeley. This is the site of a former saltwater pump house, located on what was once the east shoreline of San Francisco Bay. The pumps supplied water used in the p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10EO_workingmans-hall_Berkeley-CA.html
Originally located at Sixth and Delaware streets, this simple wooden building was constructed by volunteers from the Workingman's Club, a west Berkeley political organization. Built as a reading room for laborers, it was used briefly as Berkeley's…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10EM_toveri-tupa-finnish-hall_Berkeley-CA.html
City of Berkeley Landmarkdesignated in 1979Toward the end of the 19th-century, a large Finnish immigrant community was located in west Berkeley. Together they constructed this wooden building which integrates traditional Finnish and American verna…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10EJ_bowens-inn-higgins-grocery_Berkeley-CA.html
This building, thought to be Berkeley's oldest remaining structure, originally stood on the Contra Costa Road, now San Pablo Avenue. Built by Captain William J. Bowen when the area was sparsely populated, it served as an inn, saloon, grocery store…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10E1_philadelphia-quartz-company_Berkeley-CA.html
Berkeley HistoryReflecting West Berkeley's early industrial heritage, this plant remains one of the city's largest brick buildings. Once used to produce chemicals for a cluster of nearby industries that manufactured soaps, cleaning agents, paper p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZB1_spengers-fish-grotto_Berkeley-CA.html
Clam chowder, baked beans and 10? beer - these and fish dinners drew crowds to fabled Spenger's. It all began in the 1860s when Johann Spenger from Bavaria started fishing in the Bay. The gabled structure he built here housed his business and fami…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZAX_delaware-street-historic-district_Berkeley-CA.html
(Rehabilitated and Partially Reconstructed in 1986. William Coburn, Historic Architectural Consultant) In the 1850s, Gold Rush-era farmers and merchants began settling in this rural bayside area. Delaware Street connected Jacob's Landing, a fre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZAW_harpoon-cannon_Berkeley-CA.html
The whaling gun below this plaque came off the ship; "Cody." Gib Hunter was the Captain of the ship and was the last of the whalers to operate off the West Coast. Captain Hunter presented this whaling gun to Bud Spenger.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMODK_berkeley-municipal-pier_Berkeley-CA.html
Berkeley's original shoreline was about where Second Street and the eastern side of Aquatic Park are located today. In 1853 a private wharf was built at the foot of what is now Delaware Street, and a working waterfront with factories and piers dev…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIYW_church-of-the-good-shepherd_Berkeley-CA.html
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 Street, before it was …
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