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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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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
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.
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.
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.
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.