Barbara and Jay Vincent Park
Barbara and Jay Vincent Park is a park in Contra Costa, California. Barbara and Jay Vincent Park is situated nearby to the neighborhood Marina Bay, as well as near Easter Hill Village.Places of Interest
Highlights include Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park and SS Red Oak Victory.
Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park
Museum
Photo: E. F. Joseph, Public domain.
Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park is a United States national historical park located in Richmond, California, near San Francisco.
SS Red Oak Victory
Photo: Leonard G., CC0.
SS Red Oak Victory is a U.S. Victory ship of the Boulder Victory-class cargo ship used in the Second World War. She was preserved to serve as a museum ship in Richmond, California, and is managed by the Richmond Library of History and located near the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park.
Brooks Island
Island
Photo: Rupert Clayton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Brooks Island Regional Preserve includes both the 75-acre of Brooks Island above the low-tide line and 300 acres of the surrounding bay. The only public access to the island is via an East Bay Regional Park District naturalist tour.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Marina Bay and Stege.
Marina Bay
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Marina Bay, is located in Richmond's protected Richmond Inner Harbor. It was developed in the mid-1980s in an effort to clean up what had been up to that point the defunct World War II-era Kaiser Shipyards.
Stege
Locality
Stege, founded in 1876, was an unincorporated community in western Contra Costa County, California, United States. The town has now been annexed and absorbed by the cities of Richmond and El Cerrito, California.
Richmond
Photo: ManDood85, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Though it was a booming industrial center during World War II, the subsequent decades were not kind to Richmond, California. After the war, deindustrialization hit hard.
Barbara and Jay Vincent Park
- Type: Park
- Also known as: “Jay and Barbara Vincent Park”
- Location: Contra Costa, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.90826° or 37° 54′ 30″ northLongitude
-122.35108° or 122° 21′ 4″ westElevation
7 feet (2 metres)Open location code
849VWJ5X+8HGeoNames ID
5326099
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