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Alamo California is a small unincorporated community in Contra Costa County and has a population of slightly over 16,000 people. Originally named Alamo in 1850 by the Spanish who named it after the Poplar trees that lined the banks of the nearby San Ramon Creek there have been many attempts to...
read more about Alamo, CA Real EstateAntioch (formerly, East Antioch, Smith's Landing,and Marshs Landing is a city in Contra Costa County, California. Located in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area along the San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta, it is a suburb of San Francisco,Oakland, and Sacramento. The city's population...
read more about Antioch, CA Real EstateBay Point history:
40 years ago, the area and town that we now know as Baypoint was known as both Bella Vista and West Pittsburg. The name was changed from West Pittsburg in 2000. Return to Index
Bay Point has two wonderful marinas.
Bethel Island is a very small coastal town (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of California.Bethel Island is the 604th largest community in California.
Danville, California, in Contra Costa county, is 6 miles SE of Walnut Creek, California (center to center) and 14 miles E of Oakland, California. The town is situated in the San Ramon Valley. The impressive Mount Diablo offers a picturesque background. It's regarded as an affluent community and...
read more about Blackhawk, CA Real EstateThe area that is now Brentwood was part of the Rancho San Vicente y Santa Monica, a Spanish land-grant ranch sold off in pieces by the Sepulveda family after the Mexican-American War. Development began following the establishment of the large 600-acre (2.4 km2) Pacific Branch of the National Home...
read more about Brentwood, CA Real EstateByron, California is also home to the somewhat well-known and historical Byron Hot Springs, a now-abandoned resort which was a retreat that attracted many movie stars and famous athletes in the early 1900s.
Clayton, California is 5 miles SE of Concord, California (center to center) and 20 miles NE of Oakland, California. It is in Contra Costa county. The city is part of the Oakland metro area.
* A small tribelet of Chupcan (Bay Miwok) Indians were the first inhabitants of the valley. Dominated by a great mountain to their south, the Chupcan lived along the valley's streams, which flowed north to the wide tule marshes on the edge of the Bay. They shared the valley and the oak-covered... read more about Concord, CA Real Estate
Crockett is located on the Mexican land grant Rancho El Pinole made to Ygnacio Martinez, and is named after Joseph B. Crockett, a judge on the California Supreme Court.The town started when Thomas Edwards Sr. bought the land from Judge Crockett in 1867. Edwards built his home and established a...
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