Oyster Bay Regional Shoreline is a park in San Leandro, California, part of the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD). It is located along the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay directly to the south of Oakland International Airport. The property was originally used as a landfill for 37 years, until it was filled to capacity in 1977, when it was capped with a clay cover.
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Mulford Gardens is a neighborhood in San Leandro in Alameda County, California. It lies at an elevation of 20 feet. It was formerly an unincorporated community. It is between Mulford and Mulford Landing.
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Drake's Brewing Company is a craft brewery in San Leandro, California. The company started in 1989 as a wholesale-only kegged beer seller under the name Lind Brewing, after company founder, Roger Lind. Drake's operates out of the old Caterpillar Inc. production facility located behind a Walmart. In 2008, Drake's was sold to the owners of Triple Rock Brewery and Alehouse, a brewpub in Berkeley, California.
In 2015, Drake's opened a new taproom in an old car dealership building in Oakland, called Drake's Dealership. In 2018, Drake's opened a taproom, restaurant and events center in West Sacramento called The Barn.
Drake's operates a taproom called Drake's Barrel House inside its barrel aging warehouse in San Leandro, California. Most of the barrel aged beers are unique to the taproom and are not usually available for growler or keg fills; Drake's first bottling of a barrel aged beer, Reunion Barley Wine Ale, occurred in 2013.
In 2023, Drake's Brewing Company acquired Bear Republic Brewing's formula, recipes, and intellectual property.
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Mulford Landing is a neighborhood in San Leandro in Alameda County, California. It was formerly an unincorporated community. It southwest of Mulford Gardens, on San Francisco Bay. The San Leandro Marina city park and shoreline is located in this neighborhood as well as the Shoreline Recreation area, which hosts restaurants, boat launches, a hotel and a golf course.
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Mulford Landing is a neighborhood in San Leandro in Alameda County, California.
Originally known as Wicks Landing, the landing at San Leandro was founded in 1853 by Moses Wicks, Thomas W. Mulford, Eliphalet M. Smith, and William Smith.
They made a living by selling wildfowl, which was trapped in the Rancho San Leandro and transported from their landing across the Bay to San Francisco.
Mulford, who had come to California in 1849, bought the others out in 1868.
The Mulford station on the South Pacific Coast railway line between Alameda Point and Newark took its original name from this.
It was later renamed the West San Leandro station when the Southern Pacific Railroad Company bought the line in 1887.
Thomas W. Mulford also leased from José Joaquín Estudillo, and eventually owned, a farm named Shore Acres; had an oyster fishery; and was the manager of a hotel and restaurant in San Leandro, Estudillo House built in 1855.
The farm lost all of its livestock as a result of a mass slaughter to stem hoof-and-mouth disease in 1924, and the farmland, which had been in Mulford family hands until that time, was sold in 1927 to form a subdivision, named Mulford Gardens.
In 1957, this subdivision was then incorporated into San Leandro.
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The San Leandro Oyster Beds in San Leandro, California, were the origin of the oyster industry in the U.S. state of California. During the 1890s, the oyster industry thrived until it became the single most important fishery in the state. According to the description provided by the California Office of Historic Preservation, Moses Wicks is supposed to have been the first to bring seed oysters around Cape Horn and implant them in the San Leandro beds. The oyster industry in San Francisco Bay was at its height around the turn of the 20th century. It reached a secondary peak by 1911 and then faded away because of polluted conditions of the bay.
The former site of the oyster beds was named a California Historical Landmark and is located in the San Leandro Marina. The historical marker has been stolen but the mounting holes remain in a large mosaic depicting oyster harvesting early in the 1900s. A photograph of the site is available online. It shows the curved mosaic mural and the space where the historical marker was formerly located.
EBRPD bought the property in 1980, intending to use it as a park.