Modern 'Homesteaders' Buy Another Slice of Historic Contra Costa County, Dec 23, 1953, Oakland Tribune on November 16, 2022 1865 1953 Canyon El Rancho de Laguna de Palos Colorados Hiram Thorne Kohler McCosker Oakland Antioch and Eastern railroad redwood canyon Shepherd Canyon tunnel thorn road Thornhill tribune +
MEDAU'S TRACT. Seems to Have Been Designed by Nature for a Park Site. Nov 22, 1897, Oakland Tribune on April 23, 2020 1897 chain of parks Dingee Hays hays canyon hike history Kohler Medau Montclair oakland parks tribune +