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public with appropriate ceremony. For the next two weeks everyone ´s mind was on choosing a name for the new park and suggestions were published almost daily in the
Berkeley Gazette. Among those names proposed were “Penniman”, “Berryman”, and even “Whitehall” (the name of Bishop Berkeley's home). On July 14, 1914, the City Council adopted “Live Oak”. Several years later the park was extended one block to Oxford Street, Codornices Creek and its groves of both native and introduced trees were preserved.
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slaves who had been freed prior to the journey west, made the long trek across the continent from
Missouri to settle on the banks of Codornices Creek and to begin farming their 800 acres. Because the Byrnes had invested in a farming venture in the Delta, they began selling their Berkeley property piece by piece, beginning in 1873.
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Live Oak Park is situated here because of the many little creeks that flow from the
Berkeley Hills the short way down to San Francisco Bay. These little creeks are more powerful than they look. As rising sea level filled the current Bay at the end of the last Ice Age, the creeks basically built what
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Berkeley, like many other American cities, was swept up in the City Beautiful Movement, and had recently commissioned a report on city planning, which revealed a lack of public parks. The city took formal possession of the property on Juli 1 and the still unnamed park was opened to the
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Codornices Creek like a narrow green belt in 1301 Shattuck Avenue, at Berryman Street between Shattuck Avenue and Oxford Street. Walnut Street runs through the middle of the park as Codornices Creek meanders through its grove of native oaks, accented here and
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Berryman purchased the Byrne House with ten adjoining acres and it became known as the Berryman place. Envisioning a developing town, Henry Berryman, as owner of the Berkeley Waterworks, built the Berryman Reservoir (still located a few blocks above the Live Oak Park), and also extended the
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One of the first improvements was the present Walnut Street Bridge, designed in 1915. In 1917 a large, stone Arts & Crafts fireplace was built, an in 1918 William Miles donated a rustic aviary. Penniman's brown shingle became the clubhouse and North Branch library.
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Penniman Clubhouse burned in 1951 the city built the current Live Oak Community Center, the "Live Oak Park Recreation Center, Social Hall Shattuck & Berryman, Berkeley, California", where such groups as the "Berkeley Folk Dancers" have their home. The
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