Brooklyn is a former city in

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, now annexed to

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. Brooklyn first formed from the amalgamation in 1856 of two settlements, the sites of which are both now within the city limits of Oakland:

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and Clinton. The name Brooklyn commemorated the ship that had brought

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settlers to California in 1846. In 1870, Brooklyn absorbed the nearby town of Lynn, which housed a footwear industry, and incorporated as a city. The San Francisco and Oakland Railroad had built a station at San Antonio. When the

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took over the line in 1870, the name was changed to Brooklyn. In 1872, voters approved their city's annexation by Oakland. Afterward, when the

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took over the rail line in 1883, the Brooklyn station name was changed to

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. A post office was opened in Brooklyn in 1855; it became a branch of the Oakland post office in 1878. Looking at historical maps, Brooklyn is shown as a fairly large area, lying adjacent and to the south of Lake Merritt and the Piedmont tract, and adjacent and to the north of

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, the San Leandro Creek, and the town of San Leandro. Today this is

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