The strange, entertaining and interesting tales powering Bay Place city names

Cupertino

When the town was wanting to select its official title in 1898, they selected to name it right after nearby Cupertino Creek. The creek, in switch, had been named by Franciscan clergymen immediately after Saint Joseph of Cupertino. Joseph was mentioned to be “remarkably unclever” but was capable to levitate, a claim that present day historians choose major umbrage to. Some assume he was pretty superior at gymnastics. Other people consider he endured from ergot poisoning. In any scenario, he’s the patron saint of air tourists, bad college students, astronauts and the namesake of Cupertino.

Daly City

By the time 13-yr-old John Daly arrived in California in the 1850s, everyday living seemed grim. His mother experienced died on the Panama crossing, and younger Daly was forced to discover perform on a dairy farm in San Mateo County. But Daly, bright and kind by all accounts, rose immediately. By 1868, he owned 250 acres on the “major-of-the-hill.” When San Francisco’s streetcars prolonged above that hill, the halt became acknowledged as Daly’s Hill. Daly aided household and feed 1906 earthquake refugees and when the town integrated in 1911, the city was named in his honor.

Dublin

Irish immigrants flocked to this location in Alameda County. By the 1870s, the township was comprehensive of Irish names: Fallon, Donlan, Dougherty and far more. In accordance to nearby lore, early settler James Witt Dougherty the moment claimed, “There are so many Irish listed here, you may possibly as nicely connect with it Dublin.” Whichever its origin, the title stuck.

El Cerrito

El Cerrito came into existence because of the 1906 earthquake and fireplace. San Franciscans fleeing the destruction set up a refugee camp, which developed into a total-fledged city. It was at first named Rust after the town’s initial postmaster, but residents altered it to El Cerrito in 1916, a phrase that implies knoll in Spanish.

Emeryville

As you could guess, Emeryville gets its name from a Mr. Emery. Joseph Stickney Emery arrived in California through the Gold Hurry and grew to become president of the California and Nevada Railroad. He owned massive land tracts identified as “Emery’s” by locals. The city took his identify when it integrated in 1896.

Fairfield

When the Mexican land grant Rancho Suisun arrived into the arms of clipper ship captain Robert…