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City limits and streets in 1937. Belmont is a city in San Mateo County in the U.S. state of California. It is in the San Francisco Bay Area, on the San Francisco Peninsula about halfway between San Francisco and San Jose. It was originally part of Rancho de las Pulgas, for which one of its main roads, the Alameda de las Pulgas, is named. The ...
By 1927, the small city had a population of 857 with five churches, a public library, a bank, a high school, two local newspapers, several lumber yards, commercial packing houses, and a dehydrating plant. The city, one of Riverside County's largest apple growers, was dubbed "the land of the big red apple" by local residents in its early years.
Redwood City's status as county seat was upheld in two successive elections in May 1861 and December 9, 1873, defeating San Mateo and Belmont. [13] Another election in May 1874 named San Mateo the county seat, but the state supreme court overturned that election on February 24, 1875, and the county seat has remained at Redwood City ever since.
Los Altos also boasts the highest median home value at more than $2,000,000, according to the 2021 survey—now, in 2023, Zillow reports that the typical home value in the California city is a ...
The main route of the San Francisco Bay Trail runs along the perimeter of Foster City, including the western border along Belmont Slough. [8] The city maintains several spur trails off the Bay Trail along the western shore of Belmont Slough, including trails that lead to a beach area and the Foster City sign, visible from aircraft landing at ...
Belmont Creek is a creek in San Mateo County, California. [1] The creek rises in Belmont and flows east under the Bayshore Freeway entering the Belmont Slough in Redwood Shores . [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Ralston Hall Mansion located in Belmont, California, was the country house of William Chapman Ralston, a San Francisco businessman, a founder of the Bank of California, and a financier of the Comstock Lode. It is an opulent Italianate Villa, modified with touches of Steamboat Gothic and Victorian details.
Carlmont High School is a public high school in Belmont, California, United States serving grades 9–12 as part of the Sequoia Union High School District. Carlmont is a California Distinguished School. Carlmont was founded in 1952 as "a school within a school" at Sequoia High School, with four hundred fifty freshman and sophomore students.