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Eighth-largest city in the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Alameda County, Oakland was founded in 1852. Oakland is positioned in Northern California in the San Francisco Bay Area and in terms of population, it is the sixth largest metropolitan area in the United States. Oakland ranks as the 44th-largest city in the United States according to statical records of 2006. .
Oakland is an important West Coast port, and boasts of a number of Fortune 500 companies including Kaiser Permanente and Clorox. Oakland is also the corporate headquarters for national retailers such as Dreyer's as well as Cost Plus World Markets.
With average sunshine of 73% all through the day, the weather of Oakland is regarded as the best in the United States. With over 150 languages spoken in Oakland it is one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the United States according to the U.S. 2000 census.
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Major Oakland attractions include Jack London Square, the Oakland Museum of California, Lake Merritt and Chinatown.
Huchiun tribe, belonging to a linguistic grouping later called the Ohlone were the earliest recorded settlers of Oakland. They were densely entrenched in Oakland, surrounding Lake Merritt and Temescal Creek, a stream that flows into the San Francisco Bay at Emeryville.
Full-fledged settlement and advancement of Oakland took place after California was conquered by the United States at the time of the Mexican-American War, and the California Gold Rush in 1848. The first settlement in what is presently the downtown was originally referred to as "Contra Costa" and was part of Contra Costa County prior to Alameda County being founded on March 25, 1853. The town of Oakland was incorporated by the California State Legislature on May 4, 1852.
In the latter half of the 1800s a number of horse car as well as cable car lines were built in Oakland . The initial electric streetcar journeyed from Oakland to Berkeley in 1891, and additional lines were modified and appended during the course of the 1890s.
The number of streetcar companies functioning in Oakland were procured by Francis "Borax" Smith and amalgamated into what ultimately came to be referred to as the Key System, the precursor of present day publicly owned AC Transit.
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