Exposing the Inheritors: Stanford House Victorian/Tartarian Mansion, Oakland CA, Lake Merrit
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- Опубліковано 24 тра 2023
- (From the museum website...)
The Camron-Stanford House is the last of the beautiful Victorian mansions that once surrounded Lake Merritt, and was the home to five influential families before becoming the first museum in the City of Oakland
Josiah Stanford was the eldest of six brothers born near Albany, New York. Five of them set out for California in 1849, determined to find their fortunes in the gold fields. Arriving in Sacramento, Josiah, Dewitt, Charles, Thomas, and Asa soon changed course and decided to earn their fortunes selling supplies to the tides of miners flooding California. They opened several stores, including one which advertised that the Stanford Brothers were, “importers and wholesalers of groceries, provisions, wines, liquors, cigars, boots, clothing, flour and barley, and constantly on hand a general assortment of miners’ tools.” The last Stanford brother, Leland stayed in New York and began a political career before a fire destroyed his legal office and he joined his brothers in 1852. Within ten years, most of the brothers had returned East, though Josiah and Leland remained in California.
Josiah solidified his fortune - and place in history - by developing and capitalizing on a new method of extracting oil by tunneling rather than drilling. The new technique was made possible only by the use of cheap manual labor. Fortunately for Josiah, his friend Charles Crocker had brought thousands of Chinese immigrants to build the transcontinental railroad. In 1866, Josiah’s company produced up to 20 barrels of oil per day through this tunneling method, which was then sent to Stanford Brothers’ own refinery in San Francisco. Josiah Stanford became the first person to establish commercial production of petroleum in California and a principal in one of the state’s first major oil companies.
Leland Stanford:
(from Wikipedia...)
Amasa Leland Stanford (March 9, 1824 - June 21, 1893) was an American industrialist and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 8th governor of California from 1862 to 1863 and represented California in the United States Senate from 1885 until his death in 1893. He and his wife Jane were also the founders of Stanford University, which they named after their late son.[1] Prior to his political career, Stanford was a successful merchant and wholesaler who built his business empire after migrating to California during the Gold Rush. As president of the Central Pacific Railroad and later the Southern Pacific from 1885 to 1890, he held tremendous power in the region and a lasting impact on California.[2][3][4][5][6] Stanford is widely considered a robber baron.[2][3][4][5][6]
I enjoyed being a guide there from. 1986-1999. Beautifully restored, excellent training, wonderful mentor Liz Way!
They say there's tunnels under the Getty.
Stanford's family was in the tunnel business.
The last of the mansions on the lake also happens to be in close proximity to the Masonic Hall.
What are the chances that one or more of those clustered buildings have access to the underground?
Good stuff, thanks for the video!
Thank you for watching and nice insight! Yes very strange area indeed, I forgot to mention the boathouse which is now a restaurant , but is always there in old photos of the lake.
What's crazy is the Stanford brothers made most of their wealth supposedly from selling general supplies to all the gold miners . They never actually did any mining. And this story of Josiah tunneling into the mountain to extract oil instead of drilling sounds so contrived. And of course they used chinese immigrants. And at the same time they were building the TCR (Transcontinental Railroad) using an estimated 15,000 chinese laborers and completed in 1869. 🤣
Thank you for making a connection between the Stanford’s and the Mason’s.
I believe there to be at least 2 more old structures around the lake Merritt.
i expect the age of the massive eucalyptus tree at the mansion is the year of the mudflood/cataclysm.
They may even grow back in their straight lines after being buried or burnt to the ground.
None are native, according to them
Yes totally! I should have put a slide of the old photo in the video. If you look you can see the Eucalyptus are only around 10-20 ft tall so the age of the trees around 20-30 yrs or so when the picture w as taken which is an unknown. I will dig further, but I think they might be mis-dating photos in purpose. We know the technology was around before 1850's just not widespread? What are your thoughts?
Good eye BTW. Those eucalyptus trees are some of the biggest as far as circumference I've ever seen around the Bay Area. (Further south in Monterey there are Giant ones as well)
I think it is hard to determine the exact age because it seems the trees grew a lot bigger and faster around 100-150 yrs ago from studying tree rings and hiking all over California in general. Maybe because water was more plentiful after the mudflood?
Victorian homes homes that went to the victors of the reset. It has nothing to do with Queen Victoria
The elites tend to be rough bastards throughout history!
Did not know that Lake Merritt was a natural estuary…
One man’s inheritor is another man’s thief 👀
lake meerrrrittt is hella weird. one time saw a mayan city of gold over the water while deemstering. far out place indeed.
Wow, that must have been an intense trip! Maybe you time traveled or had a vision from the past life.