Samuel Merritt
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Samuel Merritt was an American physician and the 13th mayor of Oakland, California, from 1867 to 1869. He was a founding Regent of the University of California. He was also a shipmaster and a very suc
Samuel Merritt Bay of SF 1892
Ad in Daily Alta California (Nov 1855). His namesake bark, Samuel Merritt (130 feet long, 28 feet beam, 333 tons) was built in Bath, Maine, for his lumber trade.
1888: Samuel Merritt (top, standing) aboard his yacht Casco with Robert Louis Stevenson (right, standing) and his party, probably taken June 1888 before Stevenson and his party sailed to the South Sea.
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Lake Merritt
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Lake Merritt is a lake located in a large tidal lagoon basin in the center of Oakland, California, just east of Downtown. It is named after Samuel Merritt, Oakland's mayor in 1867–1869, who had the la
Samuel Merritt
…Slough estuary at 12th Street, turning the tidal lagoon into a lake at the high-tide level, which became known first as "Merritt's Lake" and later as Lake Merritt. Lake Merritt is historically significant as the United States' first official wildlife refuge, designated in 1870 at his urging. It also has been…
A view looking west toward the Lakeside Apartments District, the Tribune Tower and Downtown Oakland, with a lake aeration fountain in the fore area
Looking Southwest across Lake Merritt. In the distance are the Rene C. Davidson Alameda County Court House and Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center. At the right is the Bellevue-Staten Building.
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The Camron-Stanford House was built by Samuel Merritt in 1876 along the southwest corner of Lake Merritt in Oakland, California.