Veronica Escámez. Rober Diaz. Anna Lee Mraz. Peninsula 360 Press.
Thanks to its proximity to Woodside, Emerland Hills and AthertonThe city of Redwood City is one of the most technology-, education- and home-related places of employment.
The history of the Flea Ranch The Spanish conquistadors and missionaries occupied the territories of the region in the midst of a great transformation. In 1781, the Spanish government decided to settle the area of Northern California through the Rivera and Moncada Expedition. On this expedition, there was the young soldier, José Darío Argüello.
Argüello had joined the regiment as a private, but because of his leadership skills, he soon rose to become a sergeant. The tradition of the Spanish government was to reward its best soldiers with land grants; it was thus Governor Diego Boric awarded two land grants in 1795 to José Darío Argüello.
The following year, José Darío was assigned to the Presidio in San Francisco as commander and he stayed there for 10 years, when he was appointed Acting Governor of California in 1814.
Luis Antonio Argüello, son of the commander José Darío Argüello, was born in the San Francisco Presidium. He grew up surrounded by a military environment becoming a cadet at 15. In 1822, Louis married Maria Soledad Ortega. The wedding was a big event and the party at the ranch lasted several days. Luis was appointed as the first governor of California under the now new Mexican government in 1822. When he died at the age of 46 in 1830, Maria Soledadhis widow, inherited the Flea Ranch. The original concession covered what is the current San Mateo County, California. This concession was limited by San Mateo Creek to the north and San Francisco Creek to the south. It consisted of more than 35,000 square meters, or 142.6 hectares.
The agitation of the gold rush of 1849 in California led to stability, and Spanish-Mexican citizens had to prove to the land commission that they were the legal owners in order to retain their property rights. By the time Maria Soledad received her inheritance, the United States had just won from the Mexicans the conflict known as The Cake Wars and, after the Treaties of Guadalupe HidalgoIn the end, the Argüelles family was left with just under half of the land grants. The U.S.-confined acres became part of the state of California.
It was for the year 1867 that Redwood City was incorporated and was instituted as the first city in San Mateo County being its headquarters; it has a deep port in the south of San Francisco Bay. In 2010, it had a population of approximately 76,800 people, of which 38.9 % were Hispanic. Thanks to its geographical location - exactly halfway between San Francisco and San Jose - Redwood City is one of the places with more employees related to technology, education and domestic work in the United States.
As the philosopher said Yuval Noah HarariIn this sense, the capital that the territories currently have is not only worth for the resources they provide, but also for the knowledge and technology that is generated in the place.
Redwood City got its name from the huge redwoodsThe giant trees that are found in the vicinity of the city. Redwood City is a place festive whose origin is attributed to it, to a greater extent, to the large number of Mexicans who live in the cityincluding the Day of the Dead, sponsored by Casa Circulo Cultural, which attracts 10,000 attendees each year.
The 1990 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Octavio Paz, offered us an explanation for this propensity of nations to party:
"The lonely Mexican loves parties and public gatherings. Everything is an occasion to gather. Any pretext is good to interrupt the march of time and celebrate with festivities and ceremonies men and events. We are a ritualistic people. And this tendency benefits our imagination as much as our sensibility, which is always in tune and awake. The art of celebration, debased almost everywhere, remains intact among us.
Octavio Paz, "The Labyrinth of Solitude", 1950.
The city celebrates U.S. Independence Day parades on July 4, Christmas, the local Mont Carmel festival, and street parties on May 5 and September 15 at the Middlefield Neighborhoods, Fair OakThe Hispanic heart of the city.
