What a wonderful look at life in 1800’s.  This Historical CD contains stories of the local townships of San Mateo County and its people.

This is a scanned copy on CD of the original Book published in 1883.

History

of

San Mateo County,

California

INCLUDING ITS

GEOGRAPHY, TOPOGRAPHY. GEOLOGY, CLIMATOGRAPHY,

AND DESCRIPTION,

TOGETHER WITH

An Historical Sketch of California; A Record of the Mexican Grants; The Early History and Settlement, Compiled from the most Authentic Sources; Some of the Names of Spanish and American Pioneers; Legislative History;

A Record of its Cities and Towns;

Biographical Sketches of

Representative Men

ILLUSTRATED

San Francisco, Cal.

B. F. ALLEY, PUBLISHER

1883

320 pages on 1 CD

An essential resource for Genealogists

Actual images of every page, in Adobe Acrobat Reader .PDF format. Works with any computer, and is easy to use and read. Some scans are imperfect.

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Table of Contents

HISTORICAL

History or San Mateo County

Climate

Scenery

Streams

Roads

Geology of San Mateo County

General History and Settlement

Sketches of Pioneers

The Organization of the County

Early Proceedings of Board of

Supervisors

County Seat contests

Mexican Grants

Canada del Corte de

San Antonio

Buri Buri

Las Pulgas

Butano

Purissima

San Pedro

San Gregorio

Corral de Tierra

Canada de Raymundo

Arroyo de las Pilarcitos

Canada de Guadalupe

Punta del Ano Nuevo

Feliz Rancho

San Mateo

History of Townships

Pescadero

Pigeon Point

Pigeon Point Light House

Redwood City

Searsville

Woodside

Ravenswood

Clark's Landing

Belmont

Menlo Park

San Mateo

St. Mathews Episcopal Church

Laurel Hall

Millbrae

Millbrae Oyster Beds

San Bruno

Colma

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Half Moon Bay

DAIRY FARMS, ETC.

Dairy Farms

Milbrae Dairy

Willow Side Dairy Farm

Dairy Farm of I. G. Knowles

Baden Dairy Farm

James Reed's Dairy Farm

Steele Bro's. Dairy Farm

Jersey Farm of R. G. Sneath

Knowles' Trout & Carp Pond

Grady and Co's Tannery

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

Ashburner, Alt, Ames, Barrows, Beeger, Botsch, Brown, Burch, Baldwin, Bickford, Beebe, Bicknell, Christ, Casey, Chandler, Casey, Coburn, Church, Clark, Cunningham, Downing, Durham, Donald, Doyle, Deeney, Downing, Easton, Edgar, Eikerenkotter, Frisbie, Fox, Fay, Fisher, Fabbri, Fox, Felton, Garretson, Green, Goodhue, Gardner, Garnot, Gargan, Husing, Head, Hatch, Hanley, Hanson, Hartsough, Hansen, Hawes, Hayward, Harsha, Honsinger, Hollinsead, Hadler, Hallett, Jenevein, Johnson, Johnston, Kuck, Keiffer, Knowles, Kelly, Kerr, Leary, LeCornec, Lloyd, Lathrop, Moore, Maloney, McMahon, McCormack, McDermott, Midler, Miramontez, Murray, Moore, Morse, Pharis, Pinkham, Pratt, Perry, Prior, Rice, Robson, Reed, Rawls, Reed, Saeath, Steele, Swanton, Sears, Snively, Shine,Thomas, Thompson, Teague, Thompson, Taft, Taylor, Thompson, Weeks, Walker, Welch, Wurr, Walker, Whitehead, Wilson, Wymau, Winkler, Winter,