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Temescal Creek is one of the principal watercourses in Oakland, California. Oakland, founded in 1852, is a major city on the east side (also called East Bay) of San Francisco Bay in Northern California in the United States. ...
The word "temescal" derives from the word "temescalli", which means "sweat house" in the Nahuatl language of the Mexica ("Aztec") people of Mexico. The name was given to the creek when it became part of the Peralta's Rancho San Antonio. It is surmised that the Peraltas or perhaps one of their ranch hands (vaqueros) had seen local indigenous (Ohlone) structures along the creek similar to those in other parts of New Spain which were called temescalli. Nahuatl is a native language of central Mexico. ...
The word Aztec is usually used as a historical term, although some contemporary Nahuatl speakers would consider themselves Aztecs. ...
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 LuÃs MarÃa Peralta, a Spanish Army officer, in recognition of his forty years of service, on August 3...
American cowboy circa 1887 A cowhand tends livestock, especially cattle. ...
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. ...
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Two forks begin in the Berkeley Hills in the eastern section of Oakland (sometimes referred to as the "Oakland Hills"), part of the Pacific Coast Ranges, coming together in the Temescal district of Oakland, then flowing westerly across Oakland and Emeryville to San Francisco Bay. The Berkeley Hills are a range of the Pacific Coast Ranges which overlook the northeast side of the valley in which San Francisco Bay is situated. ...
The Pacific Coast Ranges are the series of mountain ranges that stretch along west coast of North America from Alaska to Mexico. ...
Location of Temescal in the City of Oakland. ...
The city of Emeryville highlighted within Alameda County Emeryville is a small city located in Alameda County, 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 north fork of Temescal Creek was re-named "Harwood's Creek" in the 19th century after the owner of land in the upper stretches of the north fork. It was re-named yet again "Claremont Creek" in the early 20th century after a residential development in the same vicinity, today's Claremont district. Location of Claremont in the cities of Oakland and Berkeley. ...
The south fork begins in the northern section of Oakland's Montclair district, flowing southwest out of a canyon in the hills, then turning abruptly northwestward in the linear valley formed by the Hayward Fault. It then flows into Lake Temescal, a natural sag pond which was dammed in the 19th century to increase its capacity for use as a reservoir. Lake Temescal is now a public park. Montclair (also known as the Montclair District) is a neighborhood of Oakland, California. ...
The Hayward Fault Zone is located in northern California in the San Francisco Bay Area. ...
Lake Temescal is a small lake in Oakland, California, and the centerpiece of Temescal Regional Park. ...
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The creek continues out of Lake Temescal, curving westerly around the end of the shutter ridge in the Rockridge district of Oakland, then flowing almost in a line toward the Bay. Rockridge is a neighborhood and district in Oakland, California. ...
Temescal Creek is a perennial stream, and as such, was much valued in the past. At its mouth, the indigenous Ohlone people (Chochen/Huichin band), and their predecessors, built up a large shellmound on the site of today's Emeryville, the largest and most studied shellmound on the shoreline of San Francisco Bay. 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. ...
A midden, or kitchen midden, is a dump for domestic waste. ...
When the area was part of the Peralta's Rancho San Antonio, the site near the shellmound was one of the principal landings for the ranch where their cattle and hides were loaded for shipping. Cattle were slaughtered here right up through the early 20th century for various meatpacking plants located in Emeryville and the adjacent section of Berkeley. 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 LuÃs MarÃa Peralta, a Spanish Army officer, in recognition of his forty years of service, on August 3...
Berkeley as seen from the Claremont Canyon Regional Preserve. ...
Today, the creek is mostly underground in culverts in the flatlands, but many stretches are open above Lake Temescal. In the early 2000's, a segment of the creek below the tracks of the Union Pacific Railroad in Emeryville was opened up to run as a lined channel through the new shopping district there, along a street named "Ohlone Way". This is just about the spot where the Emeryville shellmound once stood. A small informational park is situated here. At Shellmound Street, the creek returns to a culvert which takes it to San Francisco Bay. A culvert is a flowing body of water which passes underneath a road, railway, or embankment, or the part thereof that does so. ...
The Union Pacific Railroad NYSE: UNP is the largest railroad in the United States. ...
References - Friends of Temescal Creek
- Vicente Peralta & Rancho Encinal de Temescal
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