Martinez is the county seat for Contra Costa County
Alamo is in Contra Costa County
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On Danville Boulevard at Stone Valley Road, on the right when traveling south on Danville Boulevard.
Original Site of the
Alamo Grammar School
The first school was constructed on this site in 1876 and was destroyed by fire. The second school was built in the 1880s and included a bell tower. The third was built in the 1940s and served as . . . — — Map (db m152685) HM
Spurs and Branding Irons
California Cowhides are Big Business
After Spain's rule in the New World ended in 1821, the newly
established government of Mexico began the process of distributing
the mission lands. The area where you . . . — — Map (db m185763) HM
Near Wilson Road, 0.1 miles north of Livonia Road, on the right when traveling north.
Used from about 1880 to 1940 in the second Alamo school building which stood at the east side of Danville Blvd. near Stone Valley Road. — — Map (db m154889) HM
Near Danville Boulevard near Stone Valley Road, on the right when traveling south.
John M. & Mary Ann Smith Jones, lived at this location from 1851 - 1866. They came out west in a prairie schooner. Here John opened the only post office between Martinez and Mission San Jose on May 18, 1852. Mary Ann was his deputy while her . . . — — Map (db m93991) HM
On Stone Valley Road near Danville Boulevard, on the right when traveling west.
Squire Silas Stone emigrated with his family from Iowa in 1853 and settled half mile east of this marker. The pioneer's home stood nearby until 1957. His son Albert eventually expanded the ranch to 800 acres and gave the family name to the present . . . — — Map (db m93667) HM
On Danville Boulevard at Hemme Avenue on Danville Boulevard.
IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY, local farmers, ranchers and businessmen began to campaign for a railroad into the San Ramon Valley. This plan came to fruition in 1890 when the Southern Pacific RR started construction of its San Ramon Valley line. The . . . — — Map (db m153307) HM
For untold centuries people
have lived in the San Ramon
Valley. They built their homes by the creeks, hunted
in the valleys and worshipped
in the mountains.
In the 1700's the Tatcan, Bay
Miwok speaking people, lived
in the watershed of the . . . — — Map (db m153086) HM
