Shimada Friendship Park

Shimada Friendship Park is a park in Contra Costa, California. Shimada Friendship 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.

Richmond Annex

Neighborhood

Richmond Annex or The Annex is a neighborhood in southeastern Richmond, California. It is mostly residential and located between San Pablo Avenue/El Cerrito to the east, San Francisco Bay to the west, Central Avenue/Cerrito Creek/Albany Hill/Albany/Alameda County to the south, and Potrero Avenue/Pullman to the north. Richmond Annex is situated 1½ miles east of Shimada Friendship Park.

Shimada Friendship Park

Type: Park
Location: Contra Costa, California, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.90826° or 37° 54′ 30″ north

Longitude

-122.34469° or 122° 20′ 41″ west

Elevation

16 feet (5 metres)

Open location code

849VWM54+84

GeoNames ID

5395329

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