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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 913 at the 2010 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 .
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.
He came to in California in 1864 and practiced law in San Francisco. 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.
Niles Canyon is a canyon in the San Francisco Bay Area formed by Alameda Creek, known for its heritage railroad and silent movie history.The canyon is largely in an unincorporated area of Alameda County, while the western portion of the canyon lies within the city limits of Fremont and Union City.
Sunol may refer to: Sunol, California; Sunol-Midtown, California; Sunol, Nebraska; Sunol Regional Wilderness, Alameda County, California This page was last edited on ...
SR 84 is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System, [8] and from I-280 to the eastern Fremont city limits and from the southern terminous of Isabel Avenue in Livermore to I-580 is part of the National Highway System, [9] a network of highways that are considered essential to the country's economy, defense, and mobility by the Federal ...
Don Antonio Suñol, one of the grantees of Rancho Valle de San José in 1839. Antonio María Pico, another of the grantees and brother-in-law of Suñol.. Rancho Valle de San José (also called "Valle de San José y Corralitos") was a 48,436-acre (196.01 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Alameda County, California.