Scan of 1887 map by Art White

History of Fruitvale Presbyterian Church
Our church was duly organized in 1890 with fourteen charter members.
In 1896 the name was changed from Prospect Hill Presbyterian
to our current name of Fruitvale Presbyterian Church.

Oakland Heritage Alliance
OHA News, Fall 1986
"The Early Years of the Dimond District"
Word of this desirable location must have spread
through the German community in San Francisco,
for Germans came in large numbers.
They settled along Hopkins, down Fruitvale, and
in the Prospect Hill tract built up in the late 1880s

The Altenheim is the large building on the horizon
The photographer was standing on Prospect Hill
near the intersection of our Lincoln and MacArthur

Photo courtesy the Oakland Library's History Room.

Dimond history