The three volumes of interviews dealing with the Patterson family and ranch between the years 1851-1988, constitute a case study of changing land use in southern Alameda County from the days of the first Californios to the present. Twenty-six interviewees, including Patterson family members, ranch employees and tenant farmers, and neighbors, discuss the evolution of the 3,000 acre Patterson Ranch in Fremont, California, from agricultural to urban land use.
Volume 1: Chronicles the transition of the Patterson Ranch from a family farm in the 19th century to a large-scale agricultural enterprise operated by the L. S. Williams Company during the 1950s. The several interviews of tenant farmers and Patterson Ranch workers covering the period from approximately 1900-1950 constitute an excellent social history of fram life in Fremont's northern plain. Interviewees are: Frank Borghi, Elvamae Rose Borghi, Ruel Brown, Donald Furtado, Tillie Logan Goold, William McKeown, Gene Williams, Mel Alameda.
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The Patterson Family & Ranch: Southern Alameda County in Transition Volume I. Agriculture and Farm Life on Fremont's Northern Plain, 1890s-1980s
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Alameda, Mel' Borghi, Frank, Elvamae Rose Borghi, Ruel Brown, Donald Furtado, Tillie Logan Goold, William McKeown and Gene Williams. "The Patterson Family & Ranch: Southern Alameda County in Transition Volume I. Agriculture and Farm Life on Fremont's Northern Plain, 1890s-1980s." Interview by Bill Helfman, Ann Lage and Donald Patterson in 1975, 1986 and 1987. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1988. Interview date(s) 1975
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