San Leandro, California

San Leandro is a suburban city in Alameda County, California, United States. The population was 86,869 in 2014. It is located on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay, between Oakland to the northwest and Hayward to the southeast.

History

The first inhabitants of the geographic region which would eventually become San Leandro were the ancestors of the Ohlone Nation, who arrived sometime between 3500 and 2500 BC. The Spanish settlers called these natives Costeños or "coast people" and the English-speaking settlers called them Costanoans. San Leandro was first visited by Europeans on March 20, 1772 by Spanish soldier Captain Pedro Fages and the Spanish Catholic priest Father Crespi.

San Leandro is located on the Rancho San Leandro and Rancho San Antonio Mexican land grants. Both were located along El Camino Viejo, modern 14th Street / State Route 185.

The smaller, Rancho San Leandro, approximately 9,000 acres (3,600 ha), was given to José Joaquín Estudillo in 1842. The larger, Rancho San Antonio, approximately 44,000 acres (18,000 ha) was given to another Spanish soldier Don Luis Maria Peralta in 1820. Beginning in 1855, two of Estudillo's sons-in-law, John B. Ward and William Heath Davis, laid out the town site that would become San Leandro, bounded by the San Leandro Creek on the north, Watkins Street on the east, Castro Street on the south, & on the west by the longitude lying a block west of Alvarado Street. The city has a historic Portuguese population dating from when immigrants from the Azores and laborers from Hawaii began settling in the city in the 1880s and established farms and businesses. By the 1910 census, they had accounted for nearly two-thirds of the San Leandro's population.

San Leandro (BART station)

San Leandro is the Bay Area Rapid Transit station closest to the downtown area of San Leandro, California. It is located on the west side of San Leandro Blvd, just south of Davis St. It is as busy as Bay Fair, the other BART station in San Leandro, which are among the moderately busy stations in the East Bay.

The station consists of two elevated side platforms with the concourse mezzanine at ground level.

Service at this station began on September 11, 1972.

Bus services is provided 24 hours a day by AC Transit with local, rapid, school, and all nighter services. There is also the free LINKS shuttles that loops around San Leandro from the station during commute hours.Kaiser Permanente provides a free shuttle to their San Leandro Medical Center.

Station layout

See also

  • List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations
  • References

  • San Leandro Station Retrieved 11 September 2013.
  • "BART Fiscal Year Weekday Average Exits" (PDF). Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). Retrieved 28 July 2014.
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