Alameda County Place Names
Author : Page Mosier
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,30 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
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Author : Page Mosier
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,30 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
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Publisher :
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 21,22 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Alameda County (Calif.)
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Author : Erwin Gustav Gudde
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 21,94 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Names, Geographical
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"The story behind the naming of important mountains, counties, rivers, cities, lakes, capes, bays"--Cover.
Author : Erwin G. Gudde
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 11,90 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0520266196
This anniversary edition concentrates on the origins of the names currently used for the cities, towns, settlements, mountains, and streams of California, with engrossing accounts of the history of their usage. The dictionary includes a glossary and a bibliography.
Author : Alameda County (Calif.). Board of Supervisors
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 48,84 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Alameda County (Calif.)
ISBN :
Author : David L. Durham
Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 38,24 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781884995354
One of the fourteen gazetteers in Durham's Place-Names of California series is guaranteed to provide addictively entertaining browsing. Great for tourists, travelers, hikers, and campers, for students, writers, genealogists, historians, geographers, and cartographers.Derived from David Durham's definitive gazetteer of California, California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State, this new popularly priced series is certain to attract the attention of every new or longtime resident of California. Each volume of the series contains the complete body of entries listed in California's Geographic Names for the counties covered in that volume.Thousands of geographical features, such as mountains, streams, and canyons are extensively defined, as are cities, towns, and villages. Many entries include information about who named the feature, when and why, and alternate or obsolete names are given. Each entry gives the exact longitude and latitude of the feature -- terrific for,use with GPS devices!Perfect for park and forestry rangers, natural history buffs, real estate offices, and media news desks.
Author : Henry Anderson Lafler
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 15,77 MB
Release : 2018-02-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780666087119
Excerpt from Alameda County: The Ideal Place for Your California Home First - A wonderfully fertile plain, with cities, towns, streams, farms and orchards, its western side forming for forty seven miles the shore line of San Francisco Bay, and its eastern side terminated by hills. This plain contains something less than one-third of the area of the county. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Erwin Gustav Gudde
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 28,55 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Names, Geographical
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Author : Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez
Publisher : San Francisco, Calf., A. M. Robertson
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 29,2 MB
Release : 1914
Category : History
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Page : 1001 pages
File Size : 26,50 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Alameda County (Calif.)
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