Joaquin Miller Home

Alameda County · Joaquin Miller Road and Sanborn Drive, Oakland · location approximate

Joaquin Miller, "Poet of the Sierras,"resided on these acres named by him"The Hights,"from 1886 to 1913. In this building, known as The Abby, he wrote Columbus and other poems. The surrounding trees were planted by him, and he personally built, on the eminence to the north, the funeral pyre and the monuments dedicated to Moses, General John C. Frémont and Robert Browning."The Hights" was purchased by the City of Oakland in 1919.

1971 register text, presented as a historical document. It uses the period's terms for Native people; the state's landmark listings still carry most of this wording, and the California Office of Historic Preservation maintains the program's current texts.

Many of these plaques have since been recast or their texts revised. The California Historical Landmarks program and its current texts are maintained by the California Office of Historic Preservation. California Office of Historic Preservation ↗

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: State of California, Department of Parks and Recreation, California Historical Landmarks (1971)

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