Tag: Henry Haight

To the Editor: When community members called for the renaming of Haight Elementary School because of the racist actions of its namesake, Henry Huntly Haight,…

An ill-fated hotel, a women’s home, and a school all preceded today’s Longfellow Park. John Kohlmoos was born near Verden an der Aller, Germany, close…

Before 1872, visitors found three independent towns — Alameda, Encinal, and Woodstock — on the Alameda peninsula. William Worthington Chipman and Gideon Aughinbaugh, who purchased…