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Sunol (Spanish: Suñol) is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Alameda County, California. Located in the Sunol Valley of the East Bay , the population was 922 at the 2020 census. It is best known as the location of the Sunol Water Temple and for its historic tourist railroad system, the Niles Canyon Railway .
Sunol Valley (Spanish: Valle de Suñol) is located in Alameda County, California, United States. The small town of Sunol lies in the valley. It is largely rural, but is in proximity to the highly populated Bay Area suburbs of Fremont , Pleasanton , and Livermore .
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He slowly bought up 2,108 acres of land in Sunol along the Sinbad Creek and planted 350 acres of orchards. Later, in the 1910s he sold the farm and returned to law in Oakland. Bachelder donated some of his land for the local Congregational Church of Sunol. In 1954, the church was painted brown and renamed The Little Brown Church of Sunol. [2]
Bosco Ramos was a dog elected honorary mayor of the unincorporated community of Sunol, California, United States. [1] [2] [3] He was a black Labrador retriever and Rottweiler mix, [2] [4] usually known simply as "Bosco". Bosco defeated two humans to win the honorary mayoral election in 1981, [1] [2] and served until his death in 1994.
The Sunol Water Temple is located at 505 Paloma Way in Sunol, California. Designed by Willis Polk , the 59-foot (18 m) high classical pavilion is made up of twelve concrete Corinthian columns and a concrete ring girder that supports the conical wood and tile roof.
The Sunol Regional Wilderness is a regional park in Alameda County, the eastern San Francisco Bay Area, Northern California. It is located near the town of Sunol , south of Pleasanton and east of Fremont .
In 1844, he was granted Rancho Los Coches (in modern-day Midtown San Jose and Willow Glen neighborhoods of San Jose), where he built the Roberto-Suñol Adobe, a California Historical Landmark. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] He is considered the founder of Sunol, California , which was founded on his Rancho Valle de San José.