University of California, Berkeley School of Optometry - Location

Location

The central Berkeley campus is located on 178 acres of land, between the foothills of Berkeley in the east and the Golden Gate in the west. (The area was being used as pastureland and grain fields when in 1860 the College of California in Oakland purchased the land from a former sea captain turned farmer, Orrin Simmons.) Nearly adjacent to Minor Addition is a grassy slope called Faculty Glade, a California Registered Landmark bordered along its north perimeter by the dense vegetation of the Goodspeed Natural Area and Strawberry Creek on the north perimeter. The glade may have once been the site of an Ohlone Native American settlement that harvested fresh water and fish from the creek.