• The West Berkeley Shellmound, in West Berkeley, California, sits at the site of the earliest known habitation in the San Francisco Bay Area, a village...
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    native people lived on or near the West Berkeley Shellmound for 4,500 years. They abandoned the West Berkeley Shellmound around 800 AD. However, where the...
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    Lisjan Ohlone Leader Corrina Gould to Brief Berkeley City Council on the History of the West Berkeley Shellmound and Village Site on Tuesday, October 13 ...
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    Chochenyo (category Berkeley Hills)
    Chochenyo territory, datings of the ancient Newark Shellmound, West Berkeley Shellmound, and Emeryville Shellmound attest to people residing in the Bay Area since...
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    Midden (redirect from Shellmound)
    largest mounds in the Bay Area include: Emeryville Shellmound Located between Oakland and Berkeley, this mound was estimated to be 60 feet high and 350...
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    Aquatic Park. It was constructed just west of the West Berkeley Shellmound. During World War II, the Berkeley Yacht Harbor was used by the United States...
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    Berkeley Branch Railroad, was laid from a junction with the mainline called Shellmound (now a part of Emeryville) into what is now downtown Berkeley....
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    between Oakland and Berkeley. It was the largest of the over 425 shellmounds that surrounded San Francisco Bay. The site of the Shellmound is now a California...
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    their sacred aura was very dominant. West Berkeley Shellmound The West Berkeley Shellmound, located in Berkeley, California, is thought to be the site...
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    as ethnocentrism in settler colonial law. The paved site of the West Berkeley Shellmound continues to be threatened by housing developments and has become...
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    Mississippi Terrace Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio West Berkeley Shellmound and Village Site, Berkeley, California Yates Memorial Hospital, Ketchikan, Alaska...
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  • (demolished) Morrison House Weltevreden West Berkeley Macaroni Factory West Berkeley YMCA Hotel Durant Underwood Building Berkeley Farm Creamery (demolished in 1999)...
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    station building with commercial areas on Shellmound Street to the west. Central Pacific Railroad completed the Berkeley Branch Railroad in 1876, followed by...
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    mainline tracks and the old Berkeley branchline (Shellmound Junction) at the end of Stanford Avenue, the site of the old Shellmound trotting course.[citation...
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  • and bring attention to the shellmounds of the Bay Area, such as the West Berkeley Shellmound and the Emeryville Shellmound, the latter of which was demolished...
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    junction in what later became Emeryville called "Shellmound" to what soon became downtown Berkeley, adjacent to the new University of California campus...
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    city of Oakland. As of 2024, Emery Go-Round operates two fixed routes: Shellmound-Powell and Hollis. Service operates daily with 15-minute frequency, except...
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    Spicuzza (March 16, 2002). "Emeryville replaces historic shellmound with street mall". Berkeley Daily Planet. Retrieved March 3, 2009. Daniel Freed (November...
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    and shellfish harvesting, as evidenced by the presence of neighboring shellmounds, some of which were removed in 1915 for the development of the Harborgate...
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    an ancient shellmound. Although the shellmound had been noted as early as 1909, a sample of 22 cubic metres (780 cu ft) of the shellmound conducted in...
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    "western people"). Oakland is one of an estimated 425 shellmound sites in the greater Bay Area. Shellmounds, man-made mounds of earth and organic matter built...
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    Strawberry Creek (category Berkeley Hills)
    where it enters San Francisco Bay, the local indigenous people built up a shellmound. Until the end of the 1700s, the Ohlone indigenous people would eat shellfish...
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    Interstate 580 (I-580) is an approximately 76-mile-long (122 km) east–west auxiliary Interstate Highway in Northern California. The heavily traveled spur...
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    along the bayshore. In the stretch from University to Ashby avenues in Berkeley, this resulted in the creation of an artificial lagoon which was developed...
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    Nelson of UC Berkeley in 1907. More systematic excavations of shellmounds on Brooks Island began in 1960 with the excavation of shellmound sites CCo-290...
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    at West Alameda. Berkeley, California Street Line — Thousand Oaks station at the intersection of Solano and Colusa Avenues (Colusa Wye) in Berkeley, via...
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    archeological evidence of elk remains in at least five different Native American shellmounds: at Hunter's Point, Fort Mason, Stevenson Street, Market Street, and...
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    Evolution of a Berkeley Neighborhood 1855-1965. Lyndon Comstock. p. 16. ISBN 978-1-4942-9484-7. "There Were Once More Than 425 Shellmounds in the Bay Area...
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    Lathrap, Donald W. (1959). "Ceremonial Bird Burials in San Francisco Bay Shellmounds". American Antiquity. 25 (2): 262–264. doi:10.2307/277447. JSTOR 277447...
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  • craft the Hermes Avitor Jr. (replica pictured) takes to the air at the Shellmound Park racetrack in Emeryville, flying at about 5 miles per hour Laurentine...
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