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Ocher quarry update

The former campus of Holy Names University, in the hills just above the Warren Freeway, has been for sale for a while, but no one seems to want to move an existing college or start a new one there. The owners of “The Oakland Hills Campus,” BH Properties,


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Charles Burckhalter, Oakland science hero

The name of Charles Burckhalter might ring a bell for Oaklanders: Burckhalter Elementary School, in East Oakland on Burckhalter Avenue, is named for him. I visit nearby Burckhalter Park, whenever I’m walking in the area, for its water fountain and its view of the former Leona Quarry.

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The story of blue rock

There was a long period in Oakland’s history when the city cared deeply about its streets and took great pains with the rock it used in them.

The tiny village that became Oakland in 1852 was founded in a large grove of live oaks growing on a platform of fine sand, deposited by the wind during the latest ice age. This wasn’t a problem for a tiny village, but once comme...


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Point Emery, accidental amenity

Emeryville is squeezed between Oakland and Berkeley along the Bay shore. Its much-modified shoreline, which once was mudflats and coastal marsh, has two peninsulas made of landfill.


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Ore from the former Alma Mine

The Alma pyrite mine and its neighbors dug into the hillsides of Leona Heights from the 1890s to the 1930s. The mineshafts have been covered up over the century since, so the fabulous veins of solid pyrite inside the hills are long out of reach. The Oakland park naturalist Paul Covell was leading groups to the old diggings in the 1950s, and collectors reported finding decent ...


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