CONTRA COSTA – Commonplaces

STATISTICS OF CALIFORNIA— 1870 — May-June.

December 23, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Sacramento Daily Union, 2 January 1871 MAY. 1st — The straw sheds of the paper mill company near Santa Cruz were burned. 3d — Soundings show the removal of Blossom Rock to be complete. . . .Surveying parties for Stockton and Visalia Railroad commenced work. 4th — Creed Haymond, John C. Burch and Charles Lindley … [Read more…]

CONTRA COSTA – On the Derivation and Definition of the Names …

November 19, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Daily Alta California, Volume 1, Number 103, 29 April 1850 REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE On the Derivation and Definition of the Names of the several Counties of the State of California, &c. CONTRA COSTA. — This name signifies “opposite coast,” and the County is so called from its situation opposite San Francisco, in an … [Read more…]