KQED's Bay Curious podcast series did a nice episode on the dredging of the canal that eventually formed the Oakland-Alameda estuary.
In the late 1800s, Oakland was coming into its own politically and economically, developing its own banks, businesses and shipping companies.
“That grows and grows so that Oakland, by the early 20th century, is really thumbing its nose at San Francisco,” Walker says.
In response to local lobbying, Congressmen worked to bring in millions of federal dollars to pay the Army Corps of Engineers to improve the harbor.
Read it here, or listen online.
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