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  • Pedro Fages and Fr. Juan Crespi

    Click to view larger image Pedro Fages

    Wednesday, April 1, Lt. Pedro Fages and Fr. Juan Crespi, with 16 soldiers and muleteers, rode through this valley along what is now San Ramon Road and Foothill Road.

    Read their diary pages here.

  • De Anza settlers

    Click to view larger image Juan Bautista de Anza, from a portrait in oil by Fray Orsi in 1774
    en.wikipedia [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

    Juan Bautista De Anza leads the first group of settlers to Alta California (today’s state of California) from Mexico.

  • Independence from England

    Click to view larger image Declaration of Independence
    By John Trumbull (1756-1843) (Yale University Art Gallery [1]) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

    On the east coast, the thirteen original colonies sign the Declaration of Independence, abolishing British authority.

  • Mission San Jose

    Click to view larger image Mission San José de Guadalupe circa 1900
    By Lordkinbote at en.wikipedia [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons

    Mission San Jose established by Father Fermin Francisco de Lasuen.

    Visit Mission San José

  • Aboriginals

    All of the aboriginal (Native American) settlements are gone from our valley by this time.

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This is a website about the history of Dublin, California, with a focus on our changing relationship with the land and how we define ourselves. It would be impossible to look at the history of Dublin without including our closest neighbors, Pleasanton and Livermore. Therefore, much of the history written on these pages also encompasses Amador-Livermore Valley.

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