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These blocks grew up along the old roads out of downtown. A local history column says Woodside Road began as a dirt track called Red Wood Road, and that its crossing with the County Road, today's El Camino Real, was known as Five Points. Union Cemetery has held that corner since 1859: on March 16 of that year, a newly formed cemetery association bought six acres there, and the state's landmark description notes that the cemetery was founded and named before the first shots at Fort Sumter. It is a California Historical Landmark, has been on the National Register of Historic Places since August 25, 1983, and appears in the city's parks inventory as a historic site of about 6 acres.

Palm Park started as a neighborhood project. A local walking blog recounts that in 1958 two local kids cleared a small triangle where Palm, Kentfield and Union avenues meet, a Canary Island date palm was planted there the next year, residents petitioned the city for a real park in 1970, and today's park at Hudson Street and Palm Avenue was finished in 1979.

Central, between Jefferson and Redwood avenues, sits on flat ground crossed by two creeks that now run mostly in concrete channels and culverts: Redwood Creek along Redwood Avenue, and Arroyo Ojo de Agua, which flows north from Red Morton Park toward Jefferson Avenue. Under both neighborhoods runs the Hetch Hetchy water pipeline corridor. The city maps it as its own zone (HH), and a local walking blog notes that permanent structures can't be built over the pipes.