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The Claremont district is a neighborhood straddling the city limits of Oakland
Oakland, California

Oakland , founded in 1852, is the eighth-largest city in the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Alameda County, California. Oakland is approximately 8 miles east of San Francisco and the cities are separated by San Francisco Bay....
 and Berkeley
Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland, California and Emeryville, California....
 in the East Bay
East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)

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 section of the San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, or the Bay, is a metropolitan region that surrounds the San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay Bays in Northern California....
 in California
California

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, United States
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The Claremont district is a neighborhood straddling the city limits of Oakland
Oakland, California

Oakland , founded in 1852, is the eighth-largest city in the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Alameda County, California. Oakland is approximately 8 miles east of San Francisco and the cities are separated by San Francisco Bay....
 and Berkeley
Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland, California and Emeryville, California....
 in the East Bay
East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)

The East Bay is a subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA and comprises Alameda County, California and Contra Costa County, California Counties....
 section of the San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, or the Bay, is a metropolitan region that surrounds the San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay Bays in Northern California....
 in California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. The main thoroughfares are Claremont and Ashby Avenues.

The name was given in the late 19th century by a real estate developer. Previously, the area was grazing land owned by a man named Harwood. Harwood's name was given to the canyon and the creek draining the canyon, previously shown on maps as the north fork of Temescal Creek
Temescal Creek

Temescal Creek is one of the principal watercourses in the city of Oakland, California, United States.The word "temescal" derives from the word temescalli, which means "sweat house" in the Nahuatl language of the Mexica people of Mexico....
. When a telegraph line was strung through this canyon, it was dubbed "Telegraph Canyon". A stage coach line ran up the canyon and over the summit into Contra Costa County
Contra Costa County, California

Contra Costa County is a primarily suburban list of California counties in the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2006, the US Census Bureau estimated it had a population of 1,024,319....
. This became an early auto route over the Berkeley Hills
Berkeley Hills

The Berkeley Hills are a range of the Pacific Coast Ranges which overlook the northeast side of the valley in which San Francisco Bay is situated....
 until the first auto tunnel opened up in the 1910s at the top of Old Tunnel Road to the south of Claremont Canyon, above where the Caldecott Tunnel
Caldecott Tunnel

The Caldecott Tunnel is a three bore highway tunnel in Oakland, California. The east-west tunnel is signed as a part of California State Route 24, and connects Oakland to communities in Contra Costa County, California, through the Berkeley Hills....
 is today.

Today, Harwood's/Telegraph Canyon is Claremont Canyon, and Harwood's Creek is Claremont Creek.

In the early 1900s real estate interests associated with the Key System
Key System

The Key System was a privately owned company which provided mass transit in the cities of Oakland, California, Berkeley, California, Alameda, California, Emeryville, California, Piedmont, California, San Leandro, California, Richmond, California, Albany, California and El Cerrito, California in the East Bay San Francisco Bay Area from 190...
 built the Claremont Hotel
Claremont Resort

The Claremont Resort & Spa is a historic hotel that straddles the border between Berkeley, California and Oakland, California, California. It is located at the foot of Claremont Canyon in the Berkeley Hills, providing the resort with scenic views of San Francisco Bay....
 at the mouth of Claremont Canyon. The Key System ran one of its commuter train lines directly to the hotel up Claremont Avenue until service ended in 1958. This train became the transbay "E" train upon completion of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge.

The principal west-east thoroughfare through the Claremont was at first Russell Street which led directly to the road up Claremont Canyon. With the opening up of the tunnel however, Ashby became the more convenient approach to the Tunnel Road and was improved over the years to channel through traffic, being designated State Route 24 and connected to the Eastshore Highway (now Freeway) in southwest Berkeley. Upon completion of the Grove-Shafter Freeway, it was re-designated State Route 13.

The Claremont district was one of the areas affected by the 1991 Oakland firestorm
1991 Oakland firestorm

The Oakland Firestorm of 1991 was a large urban fire that occurred on the hillsides of northern Oakland, California and southeastern Berkeley, California on Sunday October 20, 1991, almost exactly two years after the Loma Prieta earthquake....
. The flames came within a few blocks of the Claremont Hotel, destroying much of the area northeast of Tunnel Road.

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