Appendix D - Cultural and Tribal Cultural Resources Supporting Information PUBLIC

3 Jose Maria Amador settled in the Amador Valley in 1826, but he did not formally receive the land grant for Rancho San Ramon (16,516 acres) until 1835. The town of Dublin was originally named Amador for its namesake pioneer settler. Amador built his rancho house and outbuildings in the vicinity of where the Dublin Boulevard and San Ramon Road intersection is today, east of the project area. Amador raised cattle for hides and tallow. Jose Pacheco, who owned Rancho Santa Rita, held a number of public offices at the San Jose Pueblo, never lived on the land. Francisco Alviso, Pacheco’s majordomo, lived in an adobe house (south of the City of Dublin) on the rancho property by 1845 (Hoover & Rensch 1990:18). Alviso purchased the property in 1853, only to lose it in an administrative sale in 1854. Samuel and J. West Martin purchased 5,000 acres of Rancho Santa Rita for $10,000, an amount described as a “great bargain” because there was “cattle enough sold from [the property] to provide the purchase money” (Halley 1876:501). The American Period – 19th Century In 1848, California became a United States territory as a result of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which ended the war with Mexico. California was not formally admitted as a state until 1850. After California was admitted as a state, Contra Costa County, one of the original 27 counties created by the California legislature, included what is today Contra Costa County and Alameda County. In 1853, Alameda County was created from the western and southern sections of Contra Costa County and a portion of what was originally Santa Clara County south of Alameda Creek. 1848 was also the year of the Gold Rush which brought a massive influx of immigrants to California from all parts of the world. California’s 1848 population of less than 14,000 (exclusive of Indians) increased to 224,000 in four years. As many of these new immigrants became discouraged with gold mining, they sought a more stable livelihood as farmers and ranchers. The new increase in population also created a domestic market for agricultural products that had never existed before. Once the owners of the Mexican ranchos obtained clear title to their land, they typically sold off parcels to the newcomers who started farms and ranches. The first American settler in the Dublin area was Captain Jeremiah Fallon. Fallon, his wife, their daughter Ellen and his brother-in-law Michael Murray left St. Joseph, Missouri in a wagon train for California in 1846. The Fallons and Murray originally settled in Mission San Jose, south of Dublin. After Fallon and Murray unsuccessfully tried to strike it rich in the Sierra foothills gold fields in 1850, they returned and purchased 1,000 acres of Jose Maria Amador’s rancho in 1852. The Fallon House stood on Foothill Road until it burned in 1976. Soon after Alameda County was formed, it was subdivided into 6 townships, the largest of which was Murray Township, named for Michael Murray, covering the entire Amador/Livermore valley, over one third of the county’s area. James Witt Dougherty, who came from Tennessee, purchased much of the remaining Amador rancho or about 10,000 acres, a couple of years after the Fallons moved to this area. Dougherty moved into Amador’s adobe house near Alimillo Spring (the house was eventually destroyed in the 1868 Hayward earthquake) and he began to develop Dublin into a small farm community (McCormick 2002). Dougherty added to his landholdings over time, becoming the second largest landholder in the County by 1876. At the time of his death in 1879, Dougherty owned 17,000 acres in Amador Valley. Another early Dublin settler was John Green, who arrived in 1857, purchased Michael Murray’s farm, than opened the first store and post office in Dublin in