Alameda is known for its Victorian houses ; 9 % of all single-family houses ( 1500 ) in Alameda are Victorian, and many more have been divided into two to four-unit dwellings.

It is said that Alameda has more pre-1906 earthquake era homes than any other city in the Bay Area.

Alameda is home to the official offices and training facility of the Oakland Raiders American football team, which is located on Bay Farm Island.

Naval Air Station Alameda ( NAS ), at Alameda Point, was decommissioned in 1997, and is in process of being turned over to the City of Alameda for civilian development.

The area of the former NAS is now known as Alameda Point.

Berkeley is located in northern Alameda County.

North of that is the Alameda Creek Regional Trail, running from the Bay to Niles Canyon.

Freeway opponents fear that upgrading Highway 84 will encourage more people to live in southern Alameda County ( where housing is more affordable ) and commute to jobs in the mid-Peninsula area ( where businesses wish to be located in order to be close to Silicon Valley ), thus increasing traffic in their neighborhoods to the south and west of U. S. 101.

Radiating from the centre of the city, the historic cathedral is surrounded by paved granite streets, tucked away in the old town, and separated from the newer part of the city by the largest of many parks throughout the city, Parque da Alameda.

The park ( Alameda de la Alhambra ), which is overgrown with wildflowers and grass in the spring, was planted by the Moors with roses, oranges and myrtles ; its most characteristic feature, however, is the dense wood of English elms brought by the Duke of Wellington in 1812.

* was originally named Kearsarge, but renamed in honor of CV-8 and active through the rest of World War II and is preserved as a museum ship in Alameda, California

The ranch included a stand of oak trees that stretched from the land that is today Oakland's downtown area to the adjacent part of Alameda, then a peninsula.

The original settlement in what is now the downtown was initially called " Contra Costa " (" opposite shore ", the Spanish name for the lands on the east side of the Bay ) and was included in Contra Costa County before Alameda County was established on March 25, 1853.

BART is operated by the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, a special-purpose transit district that was formed in 1957 to cover San Francisco, Alameda County, and Contra Costa County.

Two Thursday before the Virgin up from his sanctuary in the Alameda of the Fuencisla to the Cathedral to start the novena ( his arrival at the Plaza Mayor is one of the most specific one can be found in Segovia, is typical to make it when the clock of the Town Hall rings ).

Since highway 84 is a split route, the southern segment of state route 84 runs from Livermore in Alameda County and eventually ends at California Highway 1 in San Gregorio, a coastal community located in San Mateo County.

The Pleasanton Fairgrounds Racetrack at the Alameda County Fairgrounds is the oldest horse racing track in America, dating back to 1858, when it was founded by the sons of the Spaniard Don Agustin Bernal.

Alameda has also featured prominently on automotive blog Jalopnik, with their " Down on The Street " segment consisting of cars found on the streets of Alameda.

* Gibraltar Botanic Gardens, a botanical garden in Gibraltar also called La Alameda Gardens

San Lorenzo ( formerly, Lorenzo ), also known as San Lorenzo Village is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Alameda County, California, United States.

Some portions of the chase were also filmed in Oakland, California, and the tunnel shown briefly is the Webster Tube, which connects Oakland and Alameda.

The Coast Guard base on Government Island ( now known as Coast Guard Island ) Alameda, California was also used as a second major recruit training center until it was closed in 1982 and converted into the base for the USCG Pacific Area Command, the Eleventh Coast Guard District, the Marine Safety Office San Francisco Bay, the USCG Maintenance & Logistics Command Pacific and the Integrated Support Command Center-Alameda.

Oakland International Airport, also known as Metropolitan Oakland International Airport, is a public airport located south of the central business district of Oakland, a city in Alameda County, California, United States.

Bates also served as a member of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors.

The group is owned by William Dean Singleton, who also owns the Denver Post, the Alameda Newspaper Group, which includes the Oakland Tribune, as well as the Mercury News of San Jose and numerous other papers.

The Baltimore City College ( initialized as BCC, officially the Baltimore City College High School, also referred to as The Castle on the Hill, historically as The College, and most commonly City ) is a four-year public high school located at 3220 The Alameda in Baltimore, Maryland, U. S. A.

* F – Berkeley / Adeline Street ( was also extended on former Southern Pacific interurban tracks on Shattuck Avenue beyond Dwight Way and through the SP's Northbrae Tunnel, terminating at Solano Avenue and The Alameda )

IST's second dean was Duarte Pacheco ( 1927 – 1932 ), also an engineer, who was responsible for the construction of the university campus at Alameda.

It is bounded on the west by Los Angeles Street, on the east by Alameda Street, on the south by 3rd Street, and on the north by First Street, but also includes a substantial portion of the block north of First and west of Alameda, location of the Japanese American National Museum, the Go For Broke Monument, and a row of historic shops which lines the north side of First Street.

As two nuclei developed around Santa Cruz and Porto Pim, growth had also extended around the older Matriz ( where the Tower Clock now stands ) and the public square ( where Alameda Barão de Roches now exists ).

The present campus was opened in 1971, the result of a 1965 bond issue which also established a new downtown Oakland campus building for Laney College and the founding of the College of Alameda.

Following the exit at SH 83, the freeway enters a suburban area of Aurora, where it turns northward, narrowing back to two lanes and having a 55 mph speed limit, and has exits at Iliff Avenue, Mississippi Avenue, and Alameda Avenue, also signed as State Highway 30.

BART has also expressed interest in being part of this plan by having their proposed " Second Transbay Tube " connect to the new terminal and Alameda.

He also served as athletic director at the Alameda Naval Air Station.

Mount Eden, also known as Eden Township, is a former city that has been incorporated into Hayward in Alameda County, California, United States of America.

The firm also has regional offices in Alameda, Los Angeles, and San Diego, and is among the largest builders in California with clients including Starwood Lodging, Lucasfilm, Oracle Corporation, The California Academy of Sciences, eBay and Electronic Arts.

This afforaded us the opportunity of working not only with the Central San Mateo County Council with whom were about to merge ; but also San Carlos, Redwood City, San Francisco, and Alameda.

The bridge was designed by George Posey who also designed the Posey Tube tunnel between Oakland and Alameda.

Camping's predictions use 1988 as a significant year in the events preceding the apocalypse ; this was also the year he left Alameda Bible Fellowship.

* Avenida Libertador General Bernardo O ' Higgins, Santiago, Chile's main avenue, popularly known as Alameda

Nearer to town, and directly east and adjacent to Mission Santa Barbara, is a hill known locally as the " Riviera ," traversed by " Alameda Padre Serra " ( shortened APS ), " Father Serra's pathway.

When he comes back from exile, he is a Spanish noble and ambassador known as Duke of Alameda.

: With 397 enrolled members in 2000, the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe comprises " all of the known surviving Native American lineages aboriginal to the San Francisco Bay region who trace their ancestry through the Missions Dolores, Santa Clara and San Jose " and who descend from members of the historic Federally Recognized Verona Band of Alameda County.

Between the old town and the sea in the historic area known as Eixample, there is a small botanical garden on Paseo de la Alameda, and a garden with fountains and a collection of ten sculptures by Salvador Dali on the Avenida del Mar, which connects the old town with the beach.

It occupies an entire block in downtown Santiago, in the area known as Civic District between Moneda ( North Side ), Morandé ( East ), Alameda del Libertador Bernardo O ' Higgins ( South ) and Teatinos street ( West ).

) The Muwekma Ohlone Tribe states that: " all of the known surviving Native American lineages aboriginal to the San Francisco Bay region who trace their ancestry through the Missions Dolores, Santa Clara and San Jose " and who descend from members of the historic Federally Recognized Verona Band of Alameda County.

At the time of its founding, EBZS was known as the Alameda County Botanical and Zoological Society.

Located then at 73 Alameda do Lumiar, today known as Alameda das Linhas de Torres, the pitch was located in terrain made available by Visconde de Alvalade at his farm.

In November 1969, he received 72-hour furlough to play a benefit concert for the Deputy Sheriffs Association of Alameda County at the Oakland Auditorium, now known as the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, in Oakland.

Since 2000, the City of Alameda has been planning the redevelopment of the former Naval Air Station, now known as Alameda Point.

Previously known as ANG ( Alameda News Group ), the name changed to Bay Area News Group in 2006 after the MediaNews Group bought the Mercury News and Contra Costa Times from McClatchy Co.

Alameda was formerly known as Bukaw.