Flea Ranch, Heart of Redwood City

Verónica Escámez. Robert 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 places with the most employees related to technology, education and housework..

The history of the Flea Ranch The Spanish conquistadors and missionaries occupied the territories in the midst of a great transformation. In 1781, the Spanish government decided to settle the area of Northern California by means of the Rivera and Moncada Expedition. On this expedition was the young soldier, José Darío Argüello. 

Argüello had joined the regiment as a private, but because of his leadership skills, he soon rose through the ranks to become a sergeant. The tradition of the Spanish government was to reward its best soldiers with land grants, and so it was that Argüello became a sergeant. 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 remained there for 10 years, when he was appointed to the Acting Governor of California in 1814. 

Luis Antonio Argüello, son of the commander José Darío Argüello was born in the Presidio of San Francisco. He grew up surrounded by a military environment becoming a cadet at 15 years of age. In 1822, Louis married María Soledad Ortega. The wedding was a great 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 Rancho de las Pulgas. The original concession covered what is now the current San Mateo CountyCalifornia. This grant was bounded by San Mateo Creek to the north and San Francisco Creek to the south. It consisted of over 35,000 square feet, 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 to retain their property rights. By the time Maria Soledad received her inheritance, the United States had just won over the Mexicans in the conflict known as the The Cake Wars and, after the Treaties of Guadalupe HidalgoThe land grants were to be honored, and although they were, through various lawsuits and political wrangling, the Argüelles family eventually kept a little less than half. The hectares confined by the U.S. became part of the state of California.

It was for the year 1867 that Redwood City joined in and was established as the first city in San Mateo County. being its headquarters; it has a deep harbor in the south San Francisco Bay. It had, in 2010, a population of approximately 76,800 people, of which 38.9 % were Hispanic. Thanks to its geographic location - exactly halfway between San Francisco and San Jose - Redwood City is one of the top places to live in San Francisco. Redwood City is one of the places with the most employees related to technology, education and housework in the United States.

As the philosopher has remarked Yuval Noah HarariIn this sense, the capital that 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 because of the huge redwood trees.Redwood City, giant trees that are located 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 living in the city.including 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 of this propensity of nations towards parties:

"The solitary Mexican loves parties and public gatherings. Everything is an occasion to get together. Any pretext is a good one to interrupt the march of time and celebrate men and events with festivities and ceremonies. We are a ritual people. And this tendency benefits our imagination as much as our sensibility, always tuned and awake. The art of celebration, debased almost everywhere, is preserved intact among us".

Octavio Paz, "The Labyrinth of Solitude", 1950.

The city celebrates the U.S. Independence Day parades on July 4; Christmas; the local Mont Carmel festival; and, the May 5 and Sept. 15 street parties on the Middlefield Neighborhoods, Fair Oakthe Hispanic heart of the city.