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Alice Campbell, standing across the channel from Richmond Kaiser Shipyard No. 1, c. 1943. Alice was a “Rosie,” though she worked in an office in the shipyards. The Campbell family moved to El Sobrante in 1934 and built a home which still stands,...
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Boys hunting squirrels on land owned or leased by the Skow family, who ran a dairy operation along Clark Road from the early 1920s until 1955. The dairy was known as the Richmond Farm Creamery, as most of the customers lived in Richmond. The...
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Kensington Library Chronology:
County Library opens Kensington Park Branch in the home of the Caudron family (October 13, 1922).
Branch moves to the home of Miss Eleanor J. Loudon (1925).
Branch moves to Sulliger real estate office (1931).
Branch...
Located in Orinda. Said to be the only remaining part of Moraga's Rancho past, located on a hill above Moraga Valley. Construction began in 1841; originally 3 rooms. Made of bricks to form 36" width exterior walls. Redwood cut from Moraga...
The Moraga Adobe was abandoned until 1939, when Katherine Brown White Irvine, wife of James Irvine, began to restore the house and expand it. The family lived there until 1950. The Moraga Adobe became California Registered Landmark No. 509 in 1954...
