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137: 1603: 1591: 40: 431: 171:). The school was later replaced by the San Pablo Avenue School and still later, the Franklin Elementary School. In 2003, Franklin was closed, and in 2004, the Berkeley Adult School moved into its remodeled buildings. On this site at the corner of Curtis and Virginia Streets, a small park created by citizen volunteers, the Schoolhouse Creek Common, was opened on May 13, 2006. 186:
begins in the hills at the top of Virginia Street. Schoolhouse and Lincoln have their confluence in the vicinity of McGee and Cedar Streets on the flatlands below the hills. From there the creek runs southwest between Virginia and Cedar Streets. Throughout most of its upper and middle courses, the
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creek is culverted. It emerges for part of the block between Sacramento and Acton Streets, above Chestnut Street, and again at Curtis Street. Where it crosses the old right-of-way of the
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intercepted the sewage in the late 1940s, but the creek still flows in the pipe just north of and parallel to Virginia Street, reaching
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in the squared off "North Basin" that was destined to be filled by more garbage, before citizen effort halted Bay fill in the 1960s.
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railroad, now a pedestrian-bicycle trail, a massive buried concrete abutment and culvert hide the creek.
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School (the first school in today's Berkeley, established 1856 on land donated by
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Originally, the creek flowed into the south end of a large, northward-flowing
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The creek acquired its name from a school which was sited adjacent to it, the
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and north of Cedar Street. Its principal tributary,
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Berkeley, California
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