Trying to find the Creek

Picks on Glen Park area. Close to the Bart station on Diamond and Kern.
Diamond is the main shopping street of the area. On Kern there is an area with poorly maintained houses, old cars and an unconventional parking lot on gravel ground. Under all this there is the creek. It feels like an open space that almost survived urbanization.

GPS Points - Panhandle and Mission

Divisadero btw Page & Oak
005 N 37 46 21.2
        W 122 26 14.4

Fell & Broderick
007 N 37 46 25.6
        W 122 26 22.2

Fell & Baker
008 N 37 46 24.6
        W 122 26 27.8

Scott & Oak
010 N 37 46 23.8
        W 122 26 09.4

Duboce Park
013 N 37 46 10.6
        W 122 25 59.0

Market/ 14th/ Church at Safeway
014 N 37 46 03.3
        W 122 25 44.5

Dolores & 15th
015 N 37 45 58.2
        W 122 25 36.3

16th in front of the Roxy
016 N 37 45 53.3
        W 122 25 20.6

Valencia & 16th
017 N 37 45 53.0
        W 122 25 19.7

Mission and 16th
018 N 37 45 54.1
        W 122 25 11.4

Capp & 17th Uptown
019 N 37 45 48.9
        W 122 25 05.8

S. Van Ness & 18th Whiz Burger
020 N 37 45 43
        W 122 25 03.2

Folsom & 19th Fire fighter
021 N 37 45 37.6
        W 122 25 54.1

Bryant &19th on the new development
022 N 37 45 37.7
        W 122 25 35.5

Before the Spaniards

The Ohlone people, named by the Spaniards as Costanoan, inhabited the area of San Francisco Bay Area through Monterey Bay to the lower Salinas Valley. They spoke Ohlone languages and were known by the Miwuk tribe as people of the west. The Ohlone languages are Awaswas, Chalon, Chochenyo, Karkin, Mutsun, Ramaytush, Rumsen and Tamyen. These languages can be compared with the Roman sub-family of indo European languages.

Map of the Costanoan languages and major villages

Antropologists believe that the Ohlone have inhabited the region since the 6th century AD, they came from the San Joaquin-Sacramento river system, either displacing or assimilating Hokan speaking populations. The Hokan can be traced back to 4000 BC.

The name Islais come from a Salinan Native American word which is the name for a wild cherry (Prunus ilicifolia) native of coastal California and northern Baja California. Yelamu, part of the Ohlone language group, had villages along the creek until the Gold Rush.

Hollyleaf Cherry, Prunus ilicifolia