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Encyclopedia Britannica



ALAMEDA

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 469 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: AJA-ALL
ALAMEDA , a residential city of Alameda county, California, U.S.A., on an artificial
island
  about 5 M.
long
  and r m. wide, on the E. side of San Francisco bay, opposite to and about 6 m. from San Francisco, and directly S. of Oakland, from which it is separated by a drainage canal, spanned by bridges. Included within the limits of the city is Bay Farm
island
 , with an area of about 3 sq. m. Pop. (1870) 1557; (1880) 5708;.(1890) 11,165; (1900) 16,464, of whom 4175 were foreign-born; (1910,
census
 ) 23,383. Alameda is, served by the Southern Pacific railway, and is connected by an electric line with Oakland and Berkeley. Its site is low and level and its plan fairly
regular
 . Among the city's manufactures are terra-cotta tiles, pottery, rugs,
refrigerators and
salt
 . The city owns and operates the electric-
lighting
  plant; the water-works
system
  is privately owned, and the water
supply
  is obtained from deep wells at San Leandro. A
settlement
  existed here before the end of the Mexican period. In 1854 it was incorporated as a town and in 1885 was chartered as a city. In 1906 the city adopted a freehold charter, centralizing power in the
mayor
  and providing for a referendum. The county was organized in 1853.


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