. Illustrated album of Alameda County, California; its early history and progress--agriculture, viticulture and horticulture--educational, manufacturing and railroad advantages--Oakland and environs--interior townships--statistics, etc., etc . n the discovery of gold by Marshall, at Coloma,January 19, 1848, there was a rush for the diggings,and one of the principal highways lay across AlamedaCounty through the Alameda Canon, via Sunol, theLivermore Valley, and Livermore Pass, to Friars Barcinallo and Merin started theearly missions—Mission San Jose—a good-sized townsprang up, ma
. Illustrated album of Alameda County, California; its early history and progress--agriculture, viticulture and horticulture--educational, manufacturing and railroad advantages--Oakland and environs--interior townships--statistics, etc., etc . n the discovery of gold by Marshall, at Coloma,January 19, 1848, there was a rush for the diggings,and one of the principal highways lay across AlamedaCounty through the Alameda Canon, via Sunol, theLivermore Valley, and Livermore Pass, to Friars Barcinallo and Merin started theearly missions—Mission San Jose—a good-sized townsprang up, making it really the first American settle-ment in Alameda County, as it had been the firstSpanish. The town still exists, though the bulk ofthe population has drifted down nearer the bay, butthe old mission is still the center of a very fertile dis-trict. A number of other towns have also sprung upadjacent to it, among them Irvington, Niles, Center-ville and Warm Springs. The foregoing pertains to Alameda County princi-pally while under Spanish and Mexican rule. Afterthe close of the war with Mexico and the cession ofthe Territory of Alta California to the United States,the first Territorial Legislature convened at San Jose, LJ _lQ_. N)/ 3 D 0 3 fJ /3 VJ ILLUSTRATED ALBUM OF ALAMEDA COUNTY. December 13, 1849, and at the session, the Territorywas divided into twenty-seven great counties. Ofthese Contra Costa embraced the territory now in-cluded in its boundaries as well as a large part of thatnow known as Alameda County. On September 9,1850, California was admitted to the Union as one of theStates of the great federation, and the subsequent Leg-islatures divided up the immense counties into smaller . ones. In 1853 the Legislature created the county ofAlameda, with its present bounds, taking it off ContraCosta County, as well as a portion of the northerlyend of Santa Clara County. At that time it had apopulation of three thousand, and the county seat wasNew Haven, now Alvarado
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