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Years
1866
Interior of a rolling mill, 1855
Founder's Rock
Pacific Rolling Mill Company
, the West’s first iron and steel producing foundry
(rolling mill of the period pictured)
, is established in San Francisco
Frederick Billings
of the
College of California
, while walking with fellow collegians through land purchased in 1860 for the new location of the college,
stops at a spot
(pictured)
in the
Contra Costa Range
astride
Strawberry Creek
, with a view of the Bay Area and the Pacific Ocean through the
Golden Gate
. While watching two ships standing out to sea, he remembers a line by Anglican Bishop
George Berkeley
, "westward the course of empire takes its way", and suggests
Berkeley's name for the college
and
the town to grow around it
.
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