El Cerrito Time Machine
First Trans-U.S. Highway Ran Through El Cerrito
Rich Bartke, president of the El Cerrito Historical Society, tells the story of the Lincoln Highway, America's first transcontinental roadway, whose entire length was driven by Bartke's father in a Model T.
Love it or hate it, San Pablo Avenue is the main artery for our community. The Avenue starts in downtown Oakland and traverses the eight cities of Emeryville, Berkeley, Albany, El Cerrito, Richmond, San Pablo, Pinole and Hercules, and the unincorporated towns of Rodeo and Crockett with a couple of now-gone towns in between. When was the roadway started? The complete history will have to wait for another day. But according to Edward Staniford, author of El Cerrito Historical Evolution, it was originally “El Camino Real” (meaning a main road) and then “San Pablo Road” going from Oakland to Martinez via “San Pablo town.” Victor Castro (first non-Native American settler in what is now El Cerrito) built his El Cerrito adobe ranch house on …
Betty Buginas
12:26 pm on Friday, December 30, 2011
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