Redwood City is the county seat for San Mateo County
San Bruno is in San Mateo County
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On 18 January 1911, Eugene Ely flew a Curtis Pusher biplane from this location, Tanforan Park, and landed on a wooden platform constructed aboard the Navy Cruiser USS Pennsylvania anchored in the San Francisco Bay. The first shipboard . . . — — Map (db m18414) HM
Seabiscuit
Born 1933
Sired by Hard Tack – Out of Swing On
Owner – Charles S. Howard
Jockeys
Red Pollard – George Woolf
World’s Champion Money Winner to 1938 — — Map (db m18406) HM
Near Tanforan Way east of El Camino Real, on the right when traveling east.
This garden memorializes a time when this site, then the Tanforan Park Racetrack, was transformed into a temporary assembly center for persons of Japanese ancestry. On February 19, 1942, in the absence of charges or due process of law, President . . . — — Map (db m165488) HM
Racetrack opened in 1899 and had racing seasons until it burned down in 1964. Many famous horses raced and won here.
In 1942, Tanforan became a temporary assembly center for over 4000 persons of Japanese ancestry who were to be interned for the . . . — — Map (db m165489) HM
