Oakland

Oakland, capital of Alameda county, California, is on the east side of San Francisco Bay, 4½ miles from San Francisco. It is a beautiful town, with wide streets adorned with evergreen oaks, and surrounded with gardens and vineyards. It is the terminus of the Southern Pacific Railroad, and steam ferry-boats ply constantly to San Francisco. Besides numerous churches and schools, a Congregational seminary, a large Roman Catholic college (1889), and the state home for the adult blind, the city contains canning-factories, manufactories of cotton and woollen goods, jute, iron, nails, shoes, pottery, carriages, and agricultural implements. Pop. (1870) 10,500; (1890) 48,690.