Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/56

... that the settlers who built Old St. Raymond's Church (pictured) in Dublin, California, were unable to afford a full-time priest, so one rode in monthly from Oakland to hold Mass?
... that the Mexican land grant Rancho Las Juntas was given to Irishman William Welch, who was listed as "Guillermo Welch" on official land documents?
... that Mexican land grant Rancho Los Medanos was called "New York of the Pacific" by the New York army colonel who bought it?
... that Dorothea Lange and Pirkle Jones were commissioned to take photographs of Monticello, California as it was being prepared for destruction?

August 2009