Pinole Ca

Whitney Dotson was 5 years old when he moved into the brand-new house his father bought on Jenkins Way in Parchester Village. It was the early 1950s, and the planned 420-house development was Richmond's first subdivision in which an African American could buy a home. Nestled into a wide cove of San Francisco Bay, Parchester offered a welcome mix of open space, isolation and community, even though it was plopped down in an industrial landscape.