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Martinez (Spanish: Martínez) [9] [10] is a city in and the county seat of Contra Costa County, California, United States, in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. [11] Located on the southern shore of the Carquinez Strait , the city's population was 37,287 at the 2020 census .
The John Muir National Historic Site is located in the San Francisco Bay Area, in Martinez, Contra Costa County, California.It preserves the 14-room Italianate Victorian mansion where the naturalist and writer John Muir lived, as well as a nearby 325-acre (132 ha) tract of native oak woodlands and grasslands historically owned by the Muir family.
In December 2019, there was a flurry of reports from reliable sources including the Associated Press and the San Francisco Chronicle that the 161-year-old Martinez News-Gazette, one of the longest-running newspapers in California, may have to cease publication. But as of late May 2020, the threatened cessation did not materialize and the ...
Martinez (Spanish: Martínez) is a populated place on the lands of the Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians in Riverside County, California. It lies at an elevation of −135 feet (−41 meters). It lies at an elevation of −135 feet (−41 meters).
In 2006, a male and female California golden beaver arrived in Alhambra Creek in downtown Martinez. [6] The beavers built a dam 30 feet (9 m) wide and at one time 6 feet (2 m) high, and chewed through half the willows and other creekside landscaping the city planted as part of its US$ 9.7 million 1999 flood-improvement project. The City Council ...
William Anthony Richardson (August 27, 1795 – April 20, 1856) was an early California entrepreneur, influential in the development of Yerba Buena, the forerunner of the city of San Francisco. Richardson was the first to receive a land grant in the city, deeded to him by the alcalde , José Joaquín Estudillo . [ 1 ]
The Tucker House is located in Martinez, California.Originally located at 40 Escobar Street, this luxurious 4 story, 4 bedroom, 2 bath mansion was built for Captain John Tucker, a former sea captain from Nantucket, Massachusetts, who settled in Martinez, become a wheat farmer and built a mansion atop the hill on Escobar Street in 1877.
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