Bay Farm Island

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Bay Farm Island is an area of the United States city of Alameda, California, near Oakland. It is divided from the main island of Alameda by an estuary and connected by separate drawbridges for both cars and bicycles. Bay Farm Island is adjacent to the Oakland International Airport. In addition to being an affluent neighborhood, it is also the location of a municipal golf course, a high-tech industrial park, a small shopping center, Alameda Alliance for Health, a not-for-profit health plan, and the world headquarters of the NFL football team, the Oakland Raiders.

Also located on Bay Farm Island are two elementary schools: Bay Farm and Earhart Elementary Schools. The former is named for the island community that it serves. The latter is named for famed female aviator Amelia Earhart who started many of her flights from the nearby Oakland Airport.

An interesting point to note is that Alameda was once a peninsula and was later divided from the mainland to create an island, while Bay Farm Island was once an island, later to become a peninsula through land reclamation, adjacent to the Oakland Airport.

Once used as farmland, Bay Farm Island is now home to a the 36-Championship Hole Chuck Corica Golf Complex in addition to its many housing developments. The land mass boasts a chain of lagoons as well as several parks including Shoreline Park, a greenbelt that surrounds Bay Farm's perimeter.

Noteworthy figures hailing from Bay Farm Island include: