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Berkeley is located in Alameda County
Population: 107,000 In 1853 our town was called Ocean View. The city faces the Pacific Rim with a border being San Francisco Bay. The landscape is sheltered by rolling hills. There are acres of open space, neighborhood parks and city bike lanes. Being a coastal community, it has a mild year-round coastal climate.
Brand new Alameda County was casting off the cloak of Spanish times and its newcomers were already marshaling the resources of this land of promise. In May of 1866, the town became Berkeley. The county seat of Alameda County was at San Leandro, Oakland was the center of an agricultural community, Alameda and East Oakland were thriving towns, the railroads were coming, roads were being built, and Mills College had been established. Alameda County was already beginning to show the trend of development toward its great future.
San Francisco is twelve miles from Berkeley and is an easy trip by car or on the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system.
Today, Berkeley has worldwide recognition while maintaining a small town with a big-city character. The University of California and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are the city's largest employers. Berkeley has a lively small-business market. The architectural legacy of Julia Morgan, Bernard Maybeck and John Galen Howard is evident in Berkeley's many charming homes and public buildings. Berkeley is a city of unique excellence and unusual style and beauty, where individuals dare to initiate and carry out great enterprises.
