Oakland in the 1860's

Image from Report on a city plan for the municipalities of Oakland and Berkeley, 1915

• 1860: Federal census puts Oakland's population at 1,543



• 10 June 1861: Oakland Home Guard established in response to outbreak of Civil War



• 1861: First dam at 12th street established on "Merritt's Lake" (now Lake Merritt)



• August 1862: Work begins on wharf at Gibbons Point, eventually the Oakland Pier



• 02 September 1863: San Francisco & Oakland Railroad trains begin service between the wharf and Broadway



• 1867: Broadway is lined with gas lamps by the Oakland Gas Company, founded in 1866



• 24 April 1864: Oakland city council votes to pave Broadway from the wharf to Fourteenth street



• 19 March 1868: First "proper" city hall built in Oakland on Fourteenth and Washington



• July 1868: Smallpox scare tears through Oakland


1869: B. F. Stillwell publishes the first Oakland city directory. Oakland High School opens.


• 08 November 1869: First transcontinental railroad arrives in Oakland

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See Also:

The following are pages that have content or transcriptions relevant to this decade:

Oakland Genealogy Blog-Misc. transcriptions and items of interest to Oakland researchers. Labelled by surname. (Offsite)

Foreign Pioneers in Oakland Before 1870