Oakland library hosting public reception to celebrate 90 years - Inside Bay Area: “The Temescal Branch of the Oakland Public Library will commemorate its 90th anniversary with a free public reception Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m.
Records show the branch, then known as the Alden Branch, was officially dedicated on Dec. 10, 1918, and was one of five libraries in Oakland built with funds donated by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation.
Early settler Solomon Ellsworth Alden, a New Englander who came west during the Gold Rush, acquired 600 acres between 44th and 60th Streets from Vicente Peralta and began farming in the late 1800s. Soon a horse car line, and later street cars, ran along a thoroughfare leading to Berkeley — today's Telegraph Avenue — and a small business district near Alden's property sprang up, files show.”
Records show the branch, then known as the Alden Branch, was officially dedicated on Dec. 10, 1918, and was one of five libraries in Oakland built with funds donated by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation.
Early settler Solomon Ellsworth Alden, a New Englander who came west during the Gold Rush, acquired 600 acres between 44th and 60th Streets from Vicente Peralta and began farming in the late 1800s. Soon a horse car line, and later street cars, ran along a thoroughfare leading to Berkeley — today's Telegraph Avenue — and a small business district near Alden's property sprang up, files show.”
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