Mulford Landing Oyster Sheds, San Leandro Photo |
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Mulford Landing Oyster Sheds, San Leandro photo - picture in San Leandro, Alameda County, California
Oyster beds lined much of the shoreline in the late 1800s, when oystering was th most valuable fishing enterprise in the state Larger companies soon swallowed up smaller owners such as Mulford, Roberts, and Huff. The San Leandro Reporter newspaper wrote about a takeover: On Saturday Morning just as the sun peeped over the brown Castro Valey hills a low rakish sloop with a Gatling gun mounted on the poop deck and with a crew of hardy men armed to their back teeth sailed into the quiet and peaceful harbor of San Lorenzo, and in the name of, it is presumed, the Shoalwater Oyster Company, took possession of some of the oyster beds just south of those operated by the Sand Leandro Oyster Co. Source: San Leandro, by Cynthia Vrilakas Simons. |
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Last updated: Jan 10 2021 19:09:38 |
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Latitude & Longitude:
37° 41' 54.798",
-122° 11' 36.9204"
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