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Drawbridge (formerly Saline City) [2] is a ghost town [3] with an abandoned railroad station located at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay, next to Station Island, now a part of the city of Fremont, California, United States. It is located on the Union Pacific Railroad 6 miles (10 km) south of downtown Fremont, [2] at
One, San Francisco, is a consolidated city–county. California law makes no distinction between "city" and "town", and municipalities may use either term in their official names. [6] The first municipalities to incorporate were Benicia and San Jose on March 27, 1850, while the most recent was Oakley on July 1, 1999. [7]
Heinlenville (Chinese: 海因倫鎮; [5] also called the Sixth Street Chinatown 六街唐人埠 and San Jose Chinatown 散那些唐人埠 [6]) was a Chinese-American ethnic enclave in San Jose, California. Established in 1887 and demolished in 1931, it was the last and longest-lasting of San Jose's five Chinatowns.
In March 1870, a wealthy Chinese businessman from San Francisco secured a ten-year lease of the original Market Street Chinatown's land and merchants began to rebuild. A competing Chinatown also sprang up on Vine Street, near the Guadalupe River , but its residents returned to Market Street after severe flooding in 1871–1872.
Alviso is a district of San Jose, California, located in North San Jose on the southern shores of San Francisco Bay.Originally an independent town, founded in 1852, today Alviso is San Jose's only waterfront district, primarily residential in nature, with several Silicon Valley tech companies and recreation-oriented businesses.
The most commonly proposed origin of the name "Colma" is the Ohlone word mean "springs" or "many springs". [10] [5] [6]There are several other proposed origins of Colma. Erwin Gudde's California Place Names states seven possible sources of the town's being called Colma: [11] William T. Coleman (a local landowner), Thomas Coleman (a local resident), misspelling of Colmar in France, misspelling ...
Running from Colma to Millbrae, South San Francisco's portion is three miles long, running through the center of town from the South San Francisco BART Station to the San Bruno BART Station (). The Class I bicycle and pedestrian trail is a 10' wide asphalt pathway with 2' decomposed granite shoulders, irrigated for low-maintenance landscaping ...
Almaden Quicksilver County Park, 4,147 acres (16.78 km 2) of former mercury mines in South San Jose (operated and maintained by the Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department). Alum Rock Park, 718 acres (2.91 km 2) in East San Jose, the oldest municipal park in California and one of the largest municipal parks in the United States.