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Portola Valley is an incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, United States. Located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the Bay Area , Portola Valley is a small, wealthy community nestled on the eastern slopes of the Santa Cruz Mountains .
Portola (/ p ɔːr ˈ t oʊ l ə / por-TOH-lə) is the only incorporated city in Plumas County, California, United States. The population was 2,104 at the 2010 census, down from 2,227 at the 2000 census. Portola is located on the Middle Fork of the Feather River and was named after Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portolá, [5] although he did not ...
The Family is a private club in San Francisco, California, formed in 1902 by newspapermen who in protest, left the Bohemian Club due to censorship. It maintains a clubhouse in San Francisco, as well as rural property 35 miles to the south in Woodside .
José Francisco Ortega (1734 – February 1798) was a New Spanish soldier and early settler of Alta California.He joined the military at the age of twenty-one and rose to the rank of sergeant by the time he joined the Portola expedition in 1769.
Also located at the site are the Portola Diesel Shop, built in 1953, and an interlocking tower from Oakland, California, currently stored unrebuilt. The Western Pacific Hospital, built in 1911 and one of the few remaining railroad hospitals in the country, was part of the museum until it was destroyed in an arson fire on September 7, 2011.
Ladera is a census-designated place (CDP) in southern San Mateo County, California, [2] adjacent to Portola Valley.Primarily a residential community, it comprises approximately 520 homes, governed by the Ladera Community Association.
Our Lady of the Wayside Church is a modest church built in 1912 for the then-growing Catholic parish of Portola Valley by a combined effort of Jewish, Protestant and Catholic members of The Family, a San Francisco men's club that owns a nearby rural retreat.
Casa de Tableta, now known as the Alpine Inn, and formerly known as Rossotti's Saloon and Zott's, [2] was built c.1851 in Portola Valley, California at the junction of Arastradero Road. [3] It was listed as a California Historical Landmark in 1969 and on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.