Oakland History Reconsidered Recap of Oakland History Presentation Installment #3 By Kevin Heffernan The Names of the First Oakland Settlers and When They Really Came Here!! In the previous installment here we are told of land patents and the requirement that the wilderness area of the patent had to be […]
Oakland History Reconsidered Recap of Oakland History Presentation Installment #2 By Kevin Heffernan Land Patents and Slavery in Oakland! The commonly accepted history of Oakland notes that this valley was prepared for settlement via the Schuyler Land Patent of 1694 and then the subsequent arrival of 10 founding families in […]
Oakland History Reconsidered Recap of Oakland History Presentation Installment #1 By Kevin Heffernan Mother Nature, Men Without Good Maps, the Brits, the Dutch and Indians The history of Oakland really begins with Mother Nature. A few billion years ago when the earth was forming, the forces of nature created the […]
On April 2, 2014, there was a presentation at the Senior Center on the history of Oakland from 1694 to 1902, the official year of our founding as a borough. It was very well attended and well received. Over the next few weeks I will provide a recap of the […]
The Unfairest Oakland Tax of All By Kevin Heffernan What you are about to read is true and factual as improbable as it may seem. And it’s even official as codified into law. Said another way, you can’t make this stuff up. On occasion some laws pasted by our elected […]
In Memory of an Oakland Star By Kevin Heffernan March 20, 2014 marks the 19th anniversary of the passing of Sidney Kingsley, a Broadway luminary who lived in Oakland from 1935 until his passing 60 years later in 1995. Mr. Kingsley was a writer, producer and director of nine Broadway […]
