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Jun 27, 2024
Florence and fauna: Creating Piedmont Park
"Under Miss Nace's supervision and management, Piedmont Canyon became beautiful Piedmont Park" Overland Monthly 1915-06: Vol 65 Iss 6, p...


Jun 15, 2022
Oakland (and Piedmont's) Rose Garden
While taking a break from researching Piedmont, I started looking into the history of another beautiful park in our area, the Rose Garden...

Jun 10, 2022
Updates and questions
Updates: I scanned more photos and added them to the Blair Park page (and the blog post before this one), Piedmont Park's page (new maze,...


Jun 9, 2022
Oakland's First Park -- Blair Park in Piedmont
“Oakland’s Deserted Park” By ARTHUR LEWIS Oakland Tribune – Sun - Oct. 15, 1916 Before Oakland had any electric cars, its street railway...
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