History and Heritage in Redwood City, CA

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Housed in the old San Mateo County Courthouse, the History Museum is where they preserve the rich history of th...

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In 1894 Andrew Hallidie, inventor of San Francisco?s cable cars, built an aerial tramway on his hillside property, Ea...

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Originally, Michael Carey?s brick store, 1875 later acquired by A.T. Bartlett and G. Fisher. C. M. Morse?s Drug Store...

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There are few traces left of San Mateo?s First Residents Before the Europeans arrived, Native Americans living in the...

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Chrystal Springs Dam continues to provide the critical link in the delivery of water to the people of the San Francis...

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Otis M. Carrington is best remembered as one of the world?s foremost composers of operettas for children. In 1912, Mr...

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Near "El Palo Alto" the tall tree, the Portola Expedition of 63 men and 200 horses and mules camped. They had...

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About three hundred feet south of this monument on the banks of Alambique Creek, stood San Mateo County's first saw m...

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The 1959 invention of the Planar Process by Jean A. Hoerni and the Integrated Circuit (IC) based on planar technology...

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Principal of Sequoia High School Superintendent of Sequoia Union High School District 1921 1948 In the room at the fo...

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At this site in 1959, Dr. Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation invented the first integrated circuit t...

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Southern Pacific constructed this station in 1888 to meet the needs of the new town of San Carlos. The use of the Ric...

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I have loved these awesome doors since that winter day in 1949 when I first stood below them outside the Rodin Museum...

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Portola Primary School was built in 1909. The bell was moved in 1893 from the abandoned Searsville School. The buildi...

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Organized July 30,1895, the first public High School between San Francisco and San Jose occupied its own building on ...

San Mateo County History Museum