The links below will direct you to pdf images of "Berkeley Daily Gazette" articles written by William Warren Ferrier between 1923 and 1925 entitled "Berkeley Street Nomenclature." Ferrier was an eminent historian of Berkeley from the 1920s to the 1940s. The images may take several minutes to load.
Streets
- Articel XI a
"Choate Street and Telegraph Avenue" appeared on Saturday September 22, 1923 on page 4.
- Article XI b
- Article XI c
- Article XII a
"Names Fit and Unfit" appeared on Tuesday September 25, 1923.
- Article XIII a
"A Street Naming Custom" appeared on Thursday September 27, 1923 on page 4.
- Article XIII b
- Article XIV a
"Historic Names Used" appeared on Tuesday October 2, 1923.
- Article XIV b
- Article XV a
"Historic Names that are Missed" appeared on Saturday Oct 13, 1923.
- Article XV b
- Article XVI a
"A Gracious Hillside Group" appeared on Saturday October 20, 1923.
- Article XVI b
- Article XVI c
- Article XVII a
"Joaquin Miller"
- Article XVII b
- Article XVII c
- Article XVIII a
"John Muir" appeared on Thursday November 1, 1923.
- Article XVIII b
- Article XVIII c
- Article XIX a
"Bret Harte"
- Article XIX b
- Article XX a
"Mark Twain"
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- Article XXI a
"Charles Warren Stoddard"
- Articel XXI b
- Articel XXI c
- Article XXII a
"Robert Louis Stevenson" appeared on Friday December 7, 1923.
- Article XXII b
- Articel XXII c
- Article XXIII a
"Douglas Tilden" appeared on Thursday December 20, 1923.
- Article XXIII b
- Article XXIV a
"William Keith" appeared on Thursday December 27, 1923 on page 9.
- Article XXIV b
- Article XXIV c
- Article XXIV d
- Article XXV
"George Sterling" appeared on Thursday January 3, 1924.
- Article XXVI a
"Pioneer-Name Streets"
- Article XXVI b
- Article XXVI c
- Article XXVII a
"Relation of the Pioneers to College and University"
- Article XXVII b
- Article XXVII c
- Article XXVIII
"Milvia Street"
- Article XXIX a
"Names Too Fitting for Displacement"
- Article XXIX b
- Article XXIX c
"San Pablo Avenue"
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- Article XXXI a
"The Peraltas and the Rancho de San Antonio" appeared on Thursday March 19, 1925.
- Article XXXI b
- Article XXXII a
"Warring Wilkinson" - Warring Street
- Article XXXII b
- Article XXXII c
- Article XXXIII a
"Spanish California Names"
- Article XXXIII b
- Article XXXIV a
"San Benito"
- Article XXXV a
"Santa Clara"
- Article XXXV b
- Article XXXV c
- Article XXXVI a
"The Franciscan Names"
- Article XXXVI b
- Article XXXVI c
- Article XXXVII
"San Antonio Avenue and St. Antony of Padua" appeared on July 24, 1925.