History of Concord, CA
Prehistory: Bay Miwok Indian Period
Chupcan Indian tribelet occupies Diablo Valley.
Oak, pine, and willow trees proliferated across the valley and foothills.
Bear, elk, deer, and coyote roamed the vicinity. The streams teem with salmon.
1770’s: First Europeans skip Diablo Valley
Captain Pedro Fages and Padre Juan Crespi lead party in 1772.
Lt. Col. Juan Bautista de Anza, Padre Pedro Font, and Lt. Joachim Moraga lead birthday
celebration in 1776.
1810’s: Indians disappear from Valley
Chupcan Indians are missionized at San Jose and San Francisco missions.
1820’s Spanish Exploration Continues
Spanish expeditions explore but do no longer settle the valley.
1830’s: Mexican Land Grants Assigned
Don Salvio Pacheco gets Monte del Diablo Land Grant. His uncle, Don Miguel Pacheco,
received the adjoining Arroyo de las Nueces y Bolbones land grant, which protected all of
Concord’s Ygnacio Valley.
Don Salvio sends his son, Fernando, to occupy his land as the Rancho Monte del Diablo.
Don Miguel’s widow, Dona Sanchez, occupies theirs as Rancho San Miguel.
1840’s: Transition Begins
Salvio Pacheco Adobe is constructed in 1846. Pacheco and Galindo’s households flow to
Rancho Monte del Diablo.
Gold Rush exposes the valley to “Americans.”
Small pueblo forms around/close to Salvio Pacheco adobe for households of rancho servants
and vaqueros. Includes a small store and college.
1850’s: Americanization of the Valley Occurs
Towns of Pacheco and Clayton are founded. Intra-valley website online traffic traverses Rancho
Monte del Diablo.
Galindo domestic (1856) and Fernando Pacheco adobe (1851) built.
Soft Coal mines established in northeast Diablo foothills.
Lime deposits determined on/close to the southeast boundary of Rancho Monte del Diablo.
Become the first commercially exploitable lime to be quarried in California.
U.S. Land Commissions revalidate Salvio Pacheco’s ownership of Rancho Monte del Diablo.
1860’s: Todos Santos Town Established
Floods and fires ravage the city of Pacheco.
Early “American” pioneers come to a selection land spherical rancho. Some buy land from Salvio
Pacheco.
Pachecos and Galindo format town of “Todos Santos” diagonally throughout Pacheco – Clayton
Road close to Salvio Pacheco Adobe (1868). They document it officially with Contra Costa County
(1869).
Name “Concord” is used immediately with the aid of the latest settlers to the re-identify city of Todos
Santos.
1870’s: The New Town Rises
First agencies form alongside Salvio Street and spherical metropolis rectangular.
American college, first public building, established on Grant Street (demolished in 1892).
First (of 13) saloons open.
The first church, Queen of All Saints, opens near the corner of Salvio and East Streets in 1876.
It would circulate in 1953.
1880’s: Initial Commercial Growth
Hotels, blacksmiths, livery stables, banks, and small retail set up.
Fire Hall, the second — now oldest surviving — public building constructed on Mt. Diablo Street.
It would possibly later become City Hall and Police Department and be moved twice.
The telephone provider begins offevolved.
The second church, First Presbyterian, opens close to the corner of Galindo and Pacheco Streets
in 1883. It would flow into in 1906.
The third church, First Christian, opens on the corner of Fernando (gift Concord Blvd.) and Mt.
Diablo Street in 1889. It would possibly drift in 1955.
1890’s: First Major Expansion
Southern Pacific Railroad crosses southwest fringe of a metropolis.
Blum and Wittenmeyer survey/set up the most critical new metropolis addition among Southern
Pacific and original town.
New “Victorian” Concord School (to begin with a grammar college, then a blended grammar and
excessive school) constructed between Willow Pass Road and Salvio Street in 1892.
Odd Fellows Hall (IOOF) constructing moved from Pacheco to the website online on the nook of
Salvio and Colfax Streets in 1896.
The Martinez-Pacheco-Clayton stagecoach line makes stops at the Henry Ivey Livery Stable on
Salvio St.
1900’s: Officially “Concord” and Residential Expansion Occurs
Town of Concord formally blanketed with State (1905). Blacksmith Joseph Boyd becomes the first
mayor.
Mount Diablo Union High School Campus opens in 1905. It might emerge as the longest
continuously operating huge excessive faculty in California.
Oakland & Antioch Electric Railroad crosses the northeast aspect of the city.
Residential land improvement starts offevolved.
Streets graveled/paved. Sewers installed. Saloon operations curtailed.
1910’s: Growth Slows
Five business “company” towns mounted north and southeast of the city: Nichols, Bay Point/Port
Chicago, Clyde, Avon, and Cowell.
Major hearth sweeps downtown (1917). Resulting outcomes on land use there are although apparent.
Carnegie Foundation furnishes budget introduction of the first self-reliant library.
1920’s: Agricultural Period Continues and Now a Transportation Hub
Ranches, farms, and dairies thrive. Planting of walnut, almond, olive and fruit orchards intensifies.
Three railroads and state highway service town.
U.S. Airmail Field set up on West Street at Clayton Road (first of all as Weather Alternate – then
as a Primary field). First transcontinental commercial airline flight transits there.
Chamber of Commerce facilitates NORCAL airline operations from Mahoney Field (on Clayton
Road near Sacramento Northern electric powered railroad depot) to the Los Angeles area.
Flights final one month.
David Brubeck, a worldwide renowned jazz pianist, born in own family home on Colfax Street.
1930’s: Quiet Time
First Concord Hospital opened with the useful resource of Nurse Edna Haywood.
Pergola considered longest in global at that time, built around the downtown park. Wisteria
plantings grow to festoon the pergola.
1940’s: The War and a “Bedroom” Community
U.S. Navy opens munitions supply operations close to Port Chicago. Naval Magazine Port
Chicago later expands southeast through local ranches and dairies along the whole
a northeastern fringe of a metropolis.
Concord Army Airfield opens west of downtown. It becomes Buchanan Field Airport after the war.
The largest-ever U.S. conventional munitions explosion takes place at Naval Magazine Port
Chicago (1944). There is heavy damage to Concord.
Catherine Galindo succeeds her husband as Concord treasurer. She later becomes a metropolis’s
the first woman to preserve the neighborhood elective workplace in her own right.
Concord chartered as a California City (1948).
Concord-area populace grows from about 1,500 to approximately 10,000. Commuting to area
industries and to “The City” (San Francisco) begin.
Bertha Romaine, main of Mt. Diablo Union High School (1917 – 1948) retires. She had “built”
excessive college.
Mt. Diablo Unified School District formed. It includes areas out of doors of Concord.
Queen of All Saints School opens as the first parochial elementary faculty in Contra Costa County.
1950’s and 1960’s: Growth Explodes and Deterioration of Downtown
Residential subdivisions built everywhere.
Shopping facilities advanced in outlying areas close to homes.
Park & Shop and Sun Valley Mall open as primary neighborhood shopping destinations.
The significance of vicinity agricultural starts offevolved offevolved to diminish.
Willow Pass Road prolonged southwest to Sun Valley Mall.
Original downtown starts offevolved offevolved to deteriorate.
A new town hall constructed on Parkside Drive at Willow Pass Road. It changed into later changed
by the usage of a newer, adjacent Civic Center complicated.
First Concord Summer Jazz Festival held in Concord Boulevard Park.
Original city square formally renamed Todos Santos Plaza.
1970’s and 1980’s: Recovery Begins
Redevelopment Agency and Area formed.
Concord Pavilion hooked up.
BART operations begin via Concord. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson participated in floor-breaking
ceremonies held at Concord. Car Maintenance facility placed in Concord.
Rosie Sher turns into first ladies elected to Concord City Council. June Bulman becomes first ladies
determined on as mayor.
Salvio Pacheco Square building (aka Heritage Square), and Bank of America Technical Center
Campus open in downtown.
Tishman Building opens and is the tallest high-upward thrust in Contra Costa County.
1990’s: Recovery Continues and Public Art and Politics Create Turmoil
City adopts Art in Public Places and Gateway Art Program. Heritage Gateway (Spirit Poles) and
Plaza preservation conveys national interest and causes important upheaval. The new city council
elected.
New metropolis council embroiled in problems regarding gender, integrity (Mashore and Campbell),
and improvement for logo spanking new theater.
A new police facility opened.
Spirit Poles are removed.
Elevated BART line extends to north Concord; Port Chicago Highway extended south to Clayton
Road.
Naval Weapons Station Concord deactivated. U.S. Army leases “Tidal Area.”
Brenden’s 14 screen film theater megaplex opens as a news anchor downtown.
Ruth Galindo, a closing descendant of founding Galindo/Pacheco families dies (Dec 1999).
2000’s: New Millennium
The city is now the largest in Contra Costa County. Population strategies 125,000.
Mount Diablo Hospital merges with John Muir Hospital of Walnut Creek.
Planning for Galindo House and Gardens starts.
Legacy luxurious apartment complicated starts in downtown.
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