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7 <br />Dublin to Haywards Road 2; the 1876 map also shows a building near the road, likely his house. <br />An early house survived until the 1970s on the property south of the Bungalow Style house <br />extant today. Early barns and outbuildings near the early house have also been removed (Kolb <br />2018). The 240 acre Michael Devany parcel included a quarter section (i.e. 160 acres) of Section <br />10 (surveyed by the U.S. Government) in addition to a one eighth section (80 acres) of the <br />adjacent section to the east. The parcel was on the boundary of the original Rancho Santa Rita. <br />The 240 acre was not subdivided until the mid-20th century. Michael Devany also owned a 309 <br />acre parcel east of the town of Dublin. Devany and his wife Mary had six children, two sons and <br />four daughters (Lynch 2007:41). <br />Mary Devany died in 1881 at age 45 and Michael Devany died in 1890 at age 73 (Lynch <br />2007:41). The Devany’s youngest daughter, Eliza, inherited the 240 acre parcel on Dublin <br />Canyon Road. Eliza married a San Francisco Police Officer, John W. Butterworth, in 1891. <br />Eliza and John Butterworth lived in San Francisco on Folsom Street (1900 U.S. Census). The <br />Official Maps of Alameda County of 1900 and 1907 shows “Eliza Butterfield” as the owner of <br />the 240 acre parcel purchased by her father. Given that she and her husband did not live on the <br />property, it is likely they rented it to a tenant farmer and occupied by a farm manager. John <br />Butterfield died 1908, however his wife Eliza lived in San Francisco until 1949 (Lynch <br />2007:101). <br />Eliza Butterfield apparently sold the 240 acre Dublin property soon after her husband’s death. <br />The 1910 and 1915 Official Map of Alameda County shows J. V. Fernandos as the owner of the <br />240 acre parcel. According to 1910 United States Census, “Joseph V. Fernandes”, a farmer age <br />43, lived on the Dublin Pass Road with his wife Mary (age 28). The names are often misspelled <br />on the Alameda County Official Maps (which show property ownership). The person listed in <br />the Census is likely the same person shown as the property owner J.V. Fernandos. According to <br />the U.S. Census, Joseph Fernandes immigrated from Portugal in 1883 and he had been married <br />13 years. He is shown as the owner of the property where he and his wife resided. The Alameda <br />County Assessor Records indicate a 1918 construction for the Bungalow Style house (11033 <br />Dublin Canyon Road) extant today on the property, thus its likely Joseph Fernandes built this <br />house. A detached garage originally adjacent to the rear of the house has been removed (Kolb <br />2018). Historical archives did not indicate clearly how long Fernandes resided on this property. <br />Manuel F. Terra, Sr., the grandfather of the current owner of 11033 Dublin Canyon Road, <br />purchased the parcel that included the original Devany house and Fernandes house during the <br />1930s. A native of Portugal born in 1864, Terra immigrated to the United States in 1885. In the <br />Dublin area, he worked as a farmer and dairyman. According to the 1940 U.S. Census, Manuel <br />Terra, Sr. (now 75 years old and listed as a “farm manager”) and his wife Mary lived on the <br />Dublin Road, Hayward with Mary’s two children from a previous marriage (Angelina and <br />George Santos). <br /> 2 Dublin Canyon Road was also known as the Dublin Pass Road and Rural Route 3. The road later <br />became part of the Lincoln Highway (Highway 50) which passed through the original Dublin commercial <br />district. In 1953, Highway 50 was widened as a freeway, later becoming Interstate 580 (realigned in the <br />section north of Dublin Canyon Road. With increasing development in the Amador Valley, Interstate 580 <br />has been widened several times, most recently in the 1970s.