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WHERE IS CHICKEN LANE IN SAN LEANDRO?

In 1870 flourishing poultry farms along the road leading to Jane Dutton's farm northeast of San Leandro's town center caused it to be described as 'Chicken Lane".  Jane was a pioneer and a widow who had large poultry farms on the land we know today as Dutton Manor.
Originally mapped as part of the San Antonio/Ygnacio Peralta land grant, it was then mapped as the Moorlands and then in the 1920's as Dutton Manor.  This development was bordered on the east by Hollywood Blvd (MacArthur Blvd), Bancroft Ave (Santa Clara Blvd), Durant Ave (Stanley Rd) and Dutton Blvd (Chicken Lane).  The area has separate tracts inside of it such as LeBon and Cherry City.

Some Street Names Dates Deeded to City

  • Dutton Ave 1899
  • Dowling 1908
  • Durant 1908  (Stanley Rd)
  • Kenilworth 1908
  • Helen Ave 1912
  • Lewis Ave 1912
  • Mitchell Ave 1912
  • W. Merle 1912
  • Westbay 1915
  • Victoria Ave 1915
  • Broadmoor Near Macarthur was Mathey 1915
  • Fortuna Ave 1926
  • Superior Ave 1926

Samples of Home Styles in Dutton Manor.  


*Joy Elliott does not represent that she sold any of these properties
They are examples of area architecture.





Link to Homes for Sale in Dutton Manor Area

Sources:
Garden grows in eden. Harry Schaefer 1972
Google Map Images
City of San Leandro Map Images
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