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.

He owned two wineries, the Leland Stanford Winery in Alameda County founded in 1869, and run by his brother Josiah, and the Great Vina Ranch in Tehama County, containing what was then the largest vineyard in the world at.

The Cementerio General de Santiago, Chile is one of the largest cemeteries in Latin America with an estimated 2 million burials. The cemetery was established in 1820 after Chile's independence when Bernardo O ' Higgins inaugurated the Alameda de las Delicias along the old course of the Mapocho River.

Along with the county governments of Alameda and Contra Costa, the largest employers are:

Laney is the largest of the four colleges of the Peralta Community College District which serves northern Alameda County.

From 1949 to 1953, the Navy based the Lockheed R6V Constitution — the largest airplane ever listed on the Navy inventory — at NAS Alameda.

IUOE Local 3, based in Alameda, California, is the largest building and construction trades local in the U. S., with jurisdiction covering four states: California, Nevada, Hawaii and Utah.

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.

The most common trees are Coast live oak ( Quercus agrifolia ) and Blue oak ( Quercus douglasii ), with the largest blue oak growing in Alameda County.

Within 10 years, Alameda East had grown to become one of the largest animal hospitals in the United States.

Oakland's rise to industrial prominence, and its subsequent need for a seaport, led to the digging of a shipping and tidal channel in 1902, which created an " island " of nearby town Alameda.

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.

On March 25, 1853, Alameda County was created by division of Contra Costa County, as well as from a small portion of Santa Clara County.

It was not yet " Berkeley ," but merely the northern part of the " Oakland Township " subdivision of Alameda County.

The majority of the lawsuit was dismissed in April 2004, when an Alameda County Superior Court judge ruled that the case lacked merit since none of the other partners took part in the lawsuit.

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

Later, the western part of the route was extended to the Alameda Terminal in Alameda, California, and shortly thereafter, to the Oakland Long Wharf at Oakland Point in Oakland, California.

Prior to this, the site was in an unincorporated area of Alameda County.

His father, Amos Mefford Hanks ( born in Glenn County, California, on March 9, 1924 – died in Alameda, California, on January 31, 1992 ), was an itinerant cook.

His mother, Janet Marylyn ( née Frager ; born in Alameda County, California, on January 18, 1932 ), was a hospital worker.

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.

In 1916, General Motors opened a major Chevrolet automobile factory in East Oakland, making cars and then trucks until 1963, when it was moved to Fremont in southern Alameda County.

Only the existing portion from just north of Alameda de las Pulgas to just south of Stanford Shopping Center was widened to four lanes ; the new extension past the shopping center was built only as two lanes.

The tension was relieved when a road, the Alameda, was built by two hundred Indians to link the communities together.

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.

His father was an Oakland city government official, president of the Zion Lutheran Church, and served 24 years in the non-partisan office of Treasurer of Alameda County.

In early 2011, the City Council created an ad hoc America's Cup Citizens Advisory Committee to look for ways that Alameda could draw interest from teams and potential spectators.

The state Legislature created the Alameda and Contra Costa Transit District in 1955, which still exists today as AC Transit, the third-largest bus-only transit system in the nation.

Statue with Square and Compasses | initiatic purposes on the campus of Alameda in LisbonInstituto Superior Técnico ( IST ) was created in 1911 from the division of the Industrial and Commercial Institute of Lisbon.

The bay's regional importance became paramount when the First Transcontinental Railroad reached its western terminus in Alameda on September 6, 1869.

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 ).

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.

Together with Jim March, Harris filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that Diebold Election Systems had made false claims when selling their system to Alameda County, California.

The merged company was acquired by Hasbro Interactive in 1998, and what had been Spectrum HoloByte ceased to exist when the development studio in Alameda was closed in 1998.

In 1989 the Santa Clara University campus was unified when the The Alameda ( California State Route 82 ), a major thoroughfare that had bisected the university, was rerouted.

The Key System ( or Key Route ) was a privately owned company that provided mass transit in the cities of Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, Emeryville, Piedmont, San Leandro, Richmond, Albany and El Cerrito in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area from 1903 until 1960, when it was sold to a newly formed public agency, AC Transit.

Alameda County Sheriff's deputies killed one man ( James Rector ) and permanently blinded another ( Alan Blanchard ) when they fired buckshot loaded shotguns at people sitting on the roof above Telegraph Ave. At one point, protesters were chased down Telegraph as far as Willard Junior High School ( now Willard Middle School ) at Derby Street, with Sheriff's deputies firing teargas canisters onto the school grounds.

Forte was born in Alameda County, California, the son of Patricia C. ( née Stivers ) and Orville Willis Forte III, who divorced when Will and his sister Michelle were children.

The chain was founded in 1981 by Warren Simmon his son Scooter Simmon, when they opened their first restaurant in Alameda, California.

Perata began his political career when he ran for Mayor of Alameda in 1975 but was narrowly defeated.

The first self-dialed customer-connected long-distance telephone call in North America was made much later on November 11, 1951 when Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, New Jersey called Mayor Frank Osborne of Alameda, California, using AT & T's Direct Distance Dialing feature.

Frank meets Helen, first by chance in the commissary on the Naval base ( presumably Alameda Naval Air Station, though it is never identified ) and then when Frank brings his distraught teen-age daughter for treatment at the dispensary, where Helen informs him that the young lady is simply growing up in a too-crowded house that lacks a mother's guidance.

Elmhurst began in 1865, when a railroad station was constructed by the San Francisco and Alameda Railroad.

The San Jose and Santa Clara Railroad along the Alameda was the first interurban railroad in California when it opened with horsecars in 1868, and the second electric streetcar line in California ( after that in San Diego ) and the first interurban electric streetcar in the West when it reopened in 1888 with an underground third rail.

For example, when a bailiff or marshal calls the court to order part of the cry will take the form " in and for the County of San Francisco "; When there is a change of venue the cry will be, " in the County of Alameda for the County of San Francisco.