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Oakland & Fraternal Historic Cemetery Park was established in 1862 when the City of Little Rock (Pulaski County) purchased a 160-acre estate in order to accommodate the Civil War dead. Through the years, this 160-acre estate has been carved into seven distinct cemeteries: Oakland, National, an eleven-acre Confederate, a one-acre Confederate, Fraternal, Jewish Oakland, and Agudath Achim. Today, 108 acres of the original 160 remain as burial grounds. The cemeteries have seen more than 62,000 burials since the first in 1863.
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oakland, california
This was back in early Oct when we were visiting a friend in western MD. He lives a few hundred yds from where we have some property at Minnestoska (the old camp my sister & I use to attend when we were young).
Landscape Composition; "Early Spring", Oakland Beach; Rye, New York ©2009 DianaLee Photo Designs; "EXPLORE"
NYS&W 3618 sits at the Oakland Steam pedestrian crossing while spotting cars at Astro/Plastic Express. Its a humid Summer night long after dark as the crew still has the door propped open for airflow.
Oakland Falls, Hazelbrook
After a week of rain over the Sydney area what better place to shoot than the numerous hidden waterfalls of Blue Mountains National Park. Oakland Falls is unique in that you can walk in behind the waterfall and out the other side.
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Just west of West Oakland Station. The switcher is an SW1500, shunting empty double-stack cars. HDR "Natural" image, scanned from a Kodachrome slide. March 31, 1989. © 2020 Peter Ehrlich
The hotel was first proposed in 1906, as Oakland's business community sought to capitalize on the flow of commerce from San Francisco to Oakland following the 1906 earthquake. Many of the initial stockholders were important bankers. The hotel was initially called the Banker's Hotel due to involvement of the banking community. A banking panic in 1907 forced several major sponsors to drop out, delaying construction of the project.
Construction started in August 1910, and was completed in December 1912 at a cost of over $3,000,000. The architects were Walter Bliss (who also designed the furniture, tapestries, hangings and rugs) and William Faville, who designed the building in the Italian Renaissance Revival style. The grand opening of the Hotel Oakland on December 23, 1912 was celebrated by a dinner and ball with 1,150 invited guests, including Mayor Davie and much of the East Bay's social, financial and industrial elite.
During the 1930s, the hotel was forced into bankruptcy several times as the result of the depression and management difficulties. In 1943, the War Department took possession of the hotel for use as a U.S. Army hospital known as Oakland Area Station Hospital. All furnishings were auctioned off, including irreplaceable chandeliers of which only photographs remain. Following World War II, the Veterans Administration operated a hospital in the building until August of 1963.
Following the VA's use of the facility, several unsuccessful attempts were made to reopen the hotel for public use. For the next 15 years it stood vacant. Finally, in 1978 a Boston-based developer obtained possession and remodeled it into a housing project for the elderly. It remains in this use today."