Hilltop Green or "The Green"is a neighborhood in
Richmond, California
Richmond is a city in western Contra Costa County, California, United States. The city was municipal corporation, incorporated on August 7, 1905, and has a Richmond, California City Council, city council. bordering the city of
Pinole
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, the census-designated place of
El Sobrante, the neighborhood of
Hilltop, and
Hilltop Mall
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.
History
Hilltop Green has its own neighborhood council and community center in its centrally located self-titled park. The area has one entrance and exit to
Hilltop Drive and
AC Transit
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commuter bus service to San Francisco. Local bus service was eliminated in 2007. The green was originally one of the first racially integrated suburban developments created in the Bay Area and the nation and it maintains this diverse character to present times. The neighborhood is connected to
Pinole Vista Shopping Center
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History
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by steps and to the
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by an overcrossing beyond the aforementioned steps. There is a small strip mall at the neighborhood's entrance, which lies across from
Rolling Hills Memorial Park
Rolling Hills Memorial Park is a cemetery in Richmond, Contra Costa County, California, established in 1960. The site has approximately 50,000 interments.
Notable interments
* Nicholas Caldwell (1944–2016), Singer
* Proverb Jacobs (1935–20 ...
, a cemetery, and
Hilltop Park & Ride Lot Hilltop or Hill Top is the top of a hill and may refer to:
Place names England
* Hill Top, Cumbria, a house in England
* Hill Top, Stanley, County Durham, England
* Hill Top, Teesdale, County Durham, England
* Hilltop, Buckinghamshire
United St ...
, a commuter hub.
Garritty Creek
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San Pablo Bay i ...
passes through the neighborhood. Richmond's only synagogue Temple Beth Hilel is located in the Green along Park Central Drive.
Chris Treadway: Richmond temple plans Holocaust remembrance event
Chris Treadway, ''Contra Costa Times
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'', 16-04-2012, access date 19-04-2012
References
Neighborhoods in Richmond, California
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