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Walnut Creek: Contra Costa: Monte del Diablo: 1834 ... El Sur Ranch Monterey: Tularcitos: 1834 ... Ysidro Alvarado 13,322 acres (5,391 ha) 224 SD
English: Old Borges Ranch in Walnut Creek Open Space, approaching from the southeast via the Briones to Mt. Diablo Regional Trail in the Diablo Foothills, April 24, 2016 This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America .
In the early 1970s, further Walnut Creek housing developments were proposed in the Mount Diablo foothills. Local activists worked with Walnut Creek City Council to get a bond measure for the city to purchase and preserve land put on the ballot of the June 1974 election, which voters approved. [1] [2]
The Old Borges Ranch is a 1,035 acres (419 ha) historic district in the Mt. Diablo foothills within the 2,600-acre (1,100 ha) Walnut Creek Open Space in Contra Costa County, California. A former cattle ranch, Old Borges Ranch includes multiple historic buildings, a ranger station , farm animals, and access to trails.
Alvarado Area, is a National Historic Place is the northernmost portion of Wildcat Canyon. The two-mile (3.2 km) section in Wildcat Canyon Regional Park was a Nike missile base which was decommissioned in the 1970s. Today there are few signs of the missile silos and military housing that used to populate these hills.
The Gospel Foundation continued to administer Shadelands until 1970, when they gave the remaining 1.5 acres (6,100 m 2) of land and the ranch house to the city of Walnut Creek, California. Today it is managed by the Walnut Creek Historical Society, and has been open to the public since 1972 as a historical museum, the ranch house still ...
English: Built in 1899 by Frank Borges, this cattle ranch is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Date: 29 May 2013, 09:13:16 ... Walnut Creek. File ...
Downtown Walnut Creek. There are three bands of Bay Miwok Native Americans associated with the area of Walnut Creek (the stream for which the city is named): [8] [9] the Saclan, whose territory extended through the hills east of present-day cities of Oakland, Rossmoor, Lafayette, Moraga and Walnut Creek; the Volvon (also spelled Bolbon, Wolwon or Zuicun), who were near Mt. Diablo; and the ...