Author: CA) East Contra Costa Historical Society (BrentwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Byron-Brentwood-Knightsen Union Cemetery District
Author: CA) East Contra Costa Historical Society (BrentwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Historic Union Cemetery
Author: Byron-Brentwood-Knightsen Union Cemetery DistrictPublisher:
ISBN: 9780578765990
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
EAST CONTRA COSTA COUNTY CALIFORNIA Established in 1878, the Byron-Knightsen-Brentwood Union Cemetery provides a final resting place for early pioneers, farmers and entrepreneurs in the upper San Joaquin River Delta. First established at Point of Timber, Colburn Preston sold 4 acres to the new cemetery district. Burial service began immediately as 7 bodies were disinterred from the nearby Sylvester Wills property at Point of Timber for reburial at the new location. The cemetery's most famous burial is that of pre-gold rush pioneer, Francis E. Wilder, née Donner (1840-1921). She is one of only five surviving daughters of the George and Tamsen Donner Party to escape the Sierra Nevada tragedy of 1846-1847. Here you will find 19th Century gold miners, grain barons, educators, booster newspaper editors, and the first woman licensed as a mortician in California. History comes to life as you visit one of the oldest cemeteries in the California Delta.
Brentwood
Author: Ms. Carol A. JensenPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439679290
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The beautiful Brentwood area of Contra Costa County is the oldest continuously populated community in California inland from the great coastal centers. Californios eschewed this challenging portion of the Central Valley, so pioneering physician John Marsh established a permanent settlement here in 1837 at his Rancho Los Meganos. Soon, the burgeoning viniculture, wheat, orchard, and cattle operations attracted many Gold Rush miners back to their original agricultural callings, now in the California Delta. The 1860s arrival of British agribusiness concern Balfour Guthrie Investment Company soon established the largest grain-export and fruit-packing venture in the West. Brentwood Township, established in 1878 and named for Marsh's ancestral home in England, includes some of the state's most bountiful land. The region fostered the greatest wheat production west of the Mississippi River during the 19th century. Carol A. Jensen, author of Arcadia Publishing's Byron Hot Springs , The California Delta , and East Contra Costa County , presents here in vintage photography the best of Brentwood, culled from local archives and collections. Combined with Jensen's prose, these images showcase Brentwood's progression from rural beginnings as an agricultural stronghold to the modern city of houses, shops, schools, and places of worship we know today.
County Special Districts Final Budgets and Tax Levies and Rates for Indebtedness of Special Service and School Districts Governed by Local Boards of Directors for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30 ...
Author: Contra Costa County (Calif.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : School districts
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Financial Report
Author: Contra Costa County (Calif.). Office of the County Auditor-ControllerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Contra Costa County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
East Contra Costa County
Author: Carol A. JensenPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439618313
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Ho for California! The terminus of the first overland immigrant pack train destined for California was John Marshs adobe, Brentwood. Since 1841, East Contra Costa County has been a grain and fruit basket to the world, a recreational playground for resort living, and a home for health and family life. Its wheat was exported for brewing Guinness beer, and fresh apricots, peaches, and cherries still bring produce fanciers for summer harvest. Weekenders houseboat, wakeboard, and fish through the regions thousands of miles of delta waterways. This sentimental history of the communities of Brentwood, Bethel Island, Byron, Discovery Bay, Knightsen, and Oakley reveals the importance of these California Delta communities in settling and developing the Golden State.
Co budget-contra costa
Author: Comprehensive Annual Financial Report
Author: California. Public Employees' Retirement SystemPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Report on the Local Public Entity Employees Fund Regarding Experience Developed in the Administration of the Fund
Author: California. Employment Development Department. School and Government Employees BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Teachers
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Annual Report of Financial Transactions Concerning Special Districts of California (other Than Water Utility).
Author: California. Office of State ControllerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local finance
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description