Albany Hill is a prominent hill along the east shore of San Francisco Bay in the city of Albany, California. San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and the Golden Gate The San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining of approximately forty percent of California, flowing in Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean. ... The city of Albany highlighted within Alameda County Albany is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. ...

It's indigenous Ohlone name is unknown. It was named "Cerrito de San Antonio" by the Peraltas after the name of their ranch, Rancho San Antonio, a Spanish land grant which encompassed much of the East Bay. The name was changed to Albany Hill upon the establishment of the city of Albany. The adjacent city of El Cerrito was named after the hill's original Spanish name. Map of the Costanoan languages The Ohlone (formerly Costanoan) are an ethnic group whose members lived in what is now the San Francisco Bay Area and Monterey Bay areas of California until after the European discovery and settling of this area. ... Rancho San Antonio, also known as the Peralta Grant, was a 44,800-acre land grant by Governor Pablo Vicente de Solá, the last Spanish governor of California, to Don Luís María Peralta, a Spanish Army officer, in recognition of his forty years of service, on August 3... El Cerrito is a city located in Contra Costa County, California. ...

Beginning in the late 19th century, the hill was used by the Judson Powder Works for the manufacture of dynamite. The company had been forced to move from San Francisco after several accidental explosions there.

In 1905, a massive accidental explosion of nitroglycerin occurred, killing 23 workers. After this, no more manufacturing of explosives was allowed on Albany Hill. Nitroglycerin, also known as nitroglycerine, trinitroglycerin, and glyceryl trinitrate, is a chemical compound. ...

Today, Albany Hill is mostly residential, with a public park on its northern side, extending up from Cerrito Creek.