05686nbm^a2200709^a^4500 pattersonfamily01lagerich CaSfIA 20240617202953.0 m o d cr|||||||||||| 891013s1988 cau o eng d (OCoLC)1050811153 CU-BANC CU-BANC appm CaSfIA n-us-ca The Patterson family and ranch: southern Alameda County in transition : oral history transcript / interviews conducted by Ann Lage, Bill Helfman, Donald Patterson, Carole Hicke, John Caswell, Stanley Bry, and Knox Mellon, 1955-1987. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1988. 1988. 1 online resource ( Transcript: 3 v. : ill. ; 1box related material.) Phonotapes: 42 sound cassettes : analog. Supplementary material, consists of Ardenwood Forest site plan dated 1987 April 1: 1 tube (.05 linear ft.) Agriculture and farm life on Fremont's northern plain (v. 1) -- Water, development, and preservation in Southern Alameda County (v. 2) -- The Patterson Ranch, past and future: the family's perspective (v. 3). The three volumes of interviews dealing with the Patterson family and ranch between the years 1851-1988, constitute a case study of changing land use in southern Alameda County from the days of the first Californios to the present. Twenty-six interviewees, including Patterson family members, ranch employees and tenant farmers, and neighbors, discuss the evolution of the 3,000 acre Patterson Ranch in Fremont, California, from agricultural to urban land use. Volume 1: Chronicles the transition of the Patterson Ranch from a family farm in the 19th century to a large-scale agricultural enterprise operated by the L. S. Williams Company during the 1950s. The several interviews of tenant farmers and Patterson Ranch workers covering the period from approximately 1900-1950 constitute an excellent social history of fram life in Fremont's northern plain. Interviewees are: Frank Borghi, Elvamae Rose Borghi, Ruel Brown, Donald Furtado, Tillie Logan Goold, William McKeown, Gene Williams, Mel Alameda. Volume 2: Provides a more in-depth study of the interrelations between water projects, municipal formation, planned district development and historic preservation within the context of Fremont politics, 1950-1988. These interviews provide basic data about the process which transformed the Patterson Ranch from a sprawling agricultural enterprise into a Planned Urban District. Interviewees are: Mathew P. Whitfield, Wallace R. Pond, John Brooks, Robert Fisher, Laurence W. Milnes, William D. Patterson. Volume 3: Reflections of the third and fourth generation of Patterson family members. Interviewees are: Donald Patterson, William Volmer, Jeanette Korstad, Marilyn Price, Sally Patterson Adams, John E. Adams, David G. Patterson, Robert Buck, Leon G. Campbell, Wilcox Patterson, George Patterson, Bruce Patterson, Abigail Adams Campbell. Related material: Background research material on the Patterson ranch (includes correspondence, clippings, reports). Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library. Duplicate transcript. This manuscript is made available for research purposes. All literary rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Photographs transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1990.076--PIC) Each volume includes index. Patterson family. Patterson, George Washington, 1822-1895. Patterson, William Donald, 1905-1980. Alameda and Sons (Fremont, Calif.). L.S. Williams Company (Fremont, Calif.). California State Water Project. South Bay Aqueduct. Land use California Alameda County. Agriculture California Alameda County. Water resources development California. Community development California Alameda County. Ranch life California Alameda County. Farm tenancy California. Tenant farmers California. Alameda County (Calif.) History. Alameda County (Calif.) Politics and government. Fremont (Calif.) History. Fremont (Calif.) Politics and government. Patterson Ranch (Calif.) East Bay Regional Park District (Calif.) Ardenwood Regional Preserve (Calif.) Alameda County Water District History Oral histories. rbgenr Family histories. rbgenr Lage, Ann. ivr Helfman, Bill. ivr Hicke, Carole. ivr Caswell, John. ivr Bry, Stanley. ivr Mellon, Knox. ivr Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office. Agriculture and farm life on Fremont's northern plain. Water, development, and preservation in southern Alameda County. The Patterson ranch, past and future: the family's perspective. Southern Alameda County in transition. GLAD BANC BANC MSS 90/29 c GLAD BANC Phonotape 2190 C https://archive.org/details/pattersonfamily01lagerich Free eBook from the Internet Archive https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7048376M Additional information and access via Open Library pattersonfamily01lagerich 01 ark:/13960/t4xg9fp1b