Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/106

1909
 * The first Portola Road Race (pictured, left) is run through Melrose in Oakland, San Leandro and Hayward, with at least 250,000 attending
 * Albany (Albany Hill pictured, right) is incorporated in Alameda County
 * Fort Ross State Historic Park is established in Sonoma County to protect Fort Ross, founded in 1812 as the southernmost point in the Russian colonization of the Americas
 * The C. H. Brown Theater opens in the Mission District, San Francisco
 * Samuel Merritt College is founded in Oakland as a hospital school of nursing
 * San Francisco Law School is founded
 * The neighborhood of Thousand Oaks, a refugee camp from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake adjacent to Albany and Berkeley, is first subdivided