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The term Gill Tract refers to 104-acres of land in Berkeley and Albany, California that the regents of the University of California purchased from the family of the late Edward Gill in 1928. Since its acquisition by the University of California, the Gill Tract experienced iterations of development for industrial, residential, agricultural and educational use. The University Village rests on 52.5 of the original 104 acres.〔"Agricultural Lands," Bancroft Library Archives, 364-B, Office of the President, 27 March 1950.〕 A sixteen-acre portion was granted to the Federal government for a United States Department of Agriculture research campus. A nine-acre portion is the current site of Ocean View Elementary School and public baseball fields. Urban gardening plots are available to University Village residents on 6.6 acres at the western edge of the Gill Tract. Ten acres of arable, undeveloped land are used for urban agriculture and agricultural experimentation and research; bound by Buchanan St. to the north, Village Creek to the south, Jackson St. to the west, and San Pablo Ave. to the east. Four acres of trees and grasses known as Albany Meadows, formerly University Village residential buildings, serve as part of a wildlife corridor in the East Bay. The remaining six acres held facilities for agricultural experimentation and student residential buildings until their demolition in 2007. These two areas; bound by Village creek to the north, Codornices creek to the south, San Pablo Avenue to the east, and Jackson Street to the west, are included in a plan for commercial development by the University of California, Berkeley.〔http://www.cp.berkeley.edu/CP/Projects/UVA/MasterPlan_061804.pdf〕 ==Pre-Colonial== Before Spanish colonization of the Americas, the territory of the native Ohlone people included what is known today as the Gill Tract. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gill Tract」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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