Oakland, on the E. coast of the Bay of San Francisco, 4½ m. across from San Francisco city, is the capital of Alameda County, California, a beautiful city with tree-lined streets, surrounded by vineyards and orchards; it has a home of the adult blind of the State, manufactures of textile and iron goods, and fruit-canning industries, and is the terminus of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Population (circa 1900) given as 67,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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