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  1. A soap factory, a borax plant, and an oil refinery all once dotted Alameda's western shoreline. Dennis Evanosky winds back the clock to 1864, when early settlers created the Town of Woodstock, and the Alameda Railroad ran through the peninsula of Alameda—not yet an island. alamedapost.com/history/a-a-co

    #alameda #history #WalkingTour

  2. You've heard of Alameda's fabulous Gold Coast, but what about Encinal Park? Historian Dennis Evanosky takes a trip down memory lane to meet some of the early, influential settlers in Alameda who helped draw the map. alamedapost.com/history/julys-

    #alameda #EncinalPark #GoldCoast #history #WalkingTour