Shattuck Avenue
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 A 1973 color photocrome postcard of the Downtown Berkeley BART station and Berkeley Chamber of Commerce building | |
| Location | Berkeley and Oakland, California |
|---|---|
| Nearest metro station |  Downtown Berkeley station |
| Coordinates | 37°52′20″N 122°16′06″W / 37.8721°N 122.2684°W |
| South end | Telegraph Avenue in Oakland's Temescal District |
| Major junctions | |
| North end | Indian Rock Park in the Berkeley Hills |
Shattuck Avenue is a major city street running north–south through
History
During the Mexican era, a trail or road ran between the homes of the Peralta brothers, Domingo and Vicente. Domingo made his home along Codornices Creek near what is today the intersection of Sacramento and Hopkins Streets in Berkeley. Vicente's home was situated along Temescal Creek near what is today the intersection of 55th Street and Telegraph Avenue in North Oakland. The route of this early predecessor road, which came to be called the "Temescal Road",[3] is depicted on the first official plat map of the area, Kellersberger's Map. A trace of it survives today as Racine Street in North Oakland.
During the 1850s, Francis Shattuck and three others laid claim to four adjoining strips of land in what is now downtown Berkeley. The dividing line between the parcels claimed by Shattuck and his brother-in-law George Blake became the alignment of a new county road whose construction the Board of Supervisors assigned to Francis Shattuck, a member of the board. The new road was laid out from where Strawberry Creek intersected the old Temescal Road, thence along the new alignment, extending southward to a gore point intersection with the Telegraph Road (today's Telegraph Avenue). The road became known as "Shattuck's Road". Francis Shattuck built his new home above the north bank of Strawberry Creek at the northern terminus of the county road, which was also the northern bound of Shattuck's claim, along the alignment of what is now Addison Street. The creek and Shattuck's home were situated along what is now Allston Way.
In 1866, the College Homestead Association, an organization established to raise funds for the new site of the
Overview
In North Berkeley, Shattuck Avenue is the location of the Gourmet Ghetto, an unofficial district known for its density of restaurants. From there the street leads south to Downtown Berkeley.
Shattuck is an important north–south arterial roadway for northern Alameda County connecting the downtowns of Berkeley and
Major employers and schools located along the street include the
The street is a major gathering place for protestors, as it is effectively the city's Main Street and connects with other major arterials including
See also
References
- ^ Google (June 13, 2023). "Shattuck Avenue" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved June 13, 2023.
- ^ Wollenberg, Charles (2002). Berkeley, A City in History. Retrieved June 13, 2023.
- ^ "The Story of the Hanging Oak", John Boyd, Berkeley Gazette, January 14, 1908
- ^ La Peña Turns Thirty with a Street Fair, Patrick Hodge, San Francisco Chronicle, 11-06-2005, 05-01-2012.
External links
Media related to Shattuck Avenue (California) at Wikimedia Commons