Oakwood Park Stock Farms Collection, 1889-1891

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Extent:: 1 box
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Preferred citation:: Oakwood Park Stock Farms Collection. Contra Costa County Historical Society

Scope and content:: Materials are in one box. They are unbound, written on large format paper in large manila folders.
Biographical / historical:: The Oakwood Park Stock Farm, east of Danville at the foot of Mount Diablo, was one of the most prominent horse breeding farms in the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Earlier the land was owned by the Central Pacific Railroad and was known as the Railroad Ranch. Inherited by brothers Seth and Dan Cook, it became the Cook Farm in the 1870s. The property was then inherited by the Cooks’ niece Louise and her husband John Boyd. They transformed the property into the Oakwood Park Stock Farm to breed thoroughbreds. Boyd sold the property in 1906, and it was sold again in 1912 to developer Robert Burgess, who transformed the property into the Diablo Country Club. The Oakwood Park Stock Farm ledgers in this collection may relate to an item listed in Accession 94-48, a photocopy of a map of the Oakwood Park Stock Farm. The map photocopy is stored separately from these daily business ledgers. The Deed of Gift for Accession 94-48 does not list these daily business ledgers.

Subjects:: Agriculture, stock farming
Business records
Agriculture, horse breeding
ledgers
Names:: Cook, Seth
Cook, Dan
Boyd, Louise
Boyd, John
Places:: Danville
Diablo

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Restrictions:: Collection is open for research.
Terms of access:: Contact the Contra Costa County Historical Society for publication permission.

Preferred citation:: Oakwood Park Stock Farms Collection. Contra Costa County Historical Society

Location of this collection:: Contra Costa County Historical Society

724 Escobar Street

Martinez, CA 94553, US