Before the Piedmont Hotel was built, Mark Twain visited the Piedmont Springs while on a lecture tour in Oakland in 1868. Photographer Eadweard Muybridge recorded this visit in front of the gazebo-covered spring. Twain is holding a cup of mineral water. The restored faux grotto in Piedmont Park is located at the spot where Mark Twain was once photographed. The lower grotto was built on the site of the original wood gazebo. From the article on patch.com By Charles Burress, Pat

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