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Old Store At La Honda
Old Store at La Honda sat at the Northwest corner of CA Highway 84 at La Honda Road and Sears Ranch Road, this location is now listed as 8865 La Honda Road, La Honda, San Mateo County, California. This is a California Historical Landmarks in San Mateo County since 1939. A store is open and functions as a neighborhood market at this location, under a different name and ownership - nothing is left of the original store. History When John Howell Sears had to leave Searsville because of the decline of the lumber industry in that area, he settled in the La Honda area in 1862, bought 400 acres of land, and built a store. The exact date of the building of the store is unknown but estimated between the 1860s to 1870s. The store was nicknamed the "Bandit-Built Store" because it's rumored that Jim, Cole and Bob Younger (of the bank robbing James–Younger Gang) helped build the store and worked there too, while hiding out in La Honda and pretending to be lumberjacks. However in Bob Doug ...
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La Honda, California
La Honda (Spanish language, Spanish for "The Sling") is a census-designated place (CDP) in southern San Mateo County, California, San Mateo County, California, United States. The population was 979 at the 2020 census. It is located in the Santa Cruz Mountains between the Santa Clara Valley and the Pacific coast of California. La Honda is near the La Honda Creek Open Space Preserve and California State Route 84, State Route 84 on the ocean side of the Santa Cruz Mountains, Coastal Range. The ZIP Code for La Honda is 94020 and the area code is area code 650, 650. Land-line numbers in the La Honda telephone exchange follow the pattern 747-xxxx while wired telephones in and around the Middleton Tract, California, Middleton Tract (along Portola Redwoods State Park, Portola State Park Road) work out of the Los Altos, California, Los Altos exchange with 94x-xxxx numbers. Per the U.S. Geological Survey, ''Lahonda'' is a historic variant of the modern spelling. Geography According to the ...
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San Mateo County, California
San Mateo County ( ), officially the County of San Mateo, is a county (United States), county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 764,442. Redwood City, California, Redwood City is the county seat, and the third most populated city following Daly City, California, Daly City and San Mateo, California, San Mateo. San Mateo County is included in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA MSA (metropolitan statistical area), Silicon Valley, and is part of the San Francisco Bay Area, the nine counties bordering San Francisco Bay. It covers most of the San Francisco Peninsula. San Francisco International Airport is located in the northeastern area of the county and is approximately 7 miles south of the city and county limits of San Francisco, even though the airport itself is assigned a San Francisco United States Postal Service, postal address. The county's built-up areas are mostly suburban, and are home to sever ...
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California
California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territories of the United States by population, most populous U.S. state and the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 3rd largest by area. It is also the most populated Administrative division, subnational entity in North America and the 34th most populous in the world. The Greater Los Angeles area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second and fifth most populous Statistical area (United States), urban regions respectively, with the former having more than 18.7million residents and the latter having over 9.6million. Sacramento, California, Sacramento is the state's capital, while Los Angeles is the List of largest California cities by population, most populous city in the state and the List of United States cities by population, ...
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California Historical Landmarks In San Mateo County, California
List table of the properties and districts — listed on the California Historical Landmarks — within San Mateo County, California. *Note: ''Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view a Google map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below.'' Listings References See also *List of California Historical Landmarks *National Register of Historic Places listings in San Mateo County, California __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in San Mateo County, California. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in San Mateo County ... {{DEFAULTSORT:California Historical Landmarks +Landmarks *List of California Historical Landmarks C01 ...
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John Howell Sears
John Howell Sears (1823–1907) was an early pioneer of Searsville and La Honda, two cities in San Mateo County, California. He directly influenced the development of these cities. History Born February 3, 1823 in Sullivan County, New York. He was living in Wayne County, Pennsylvania before arriving in San Francisco on August 1, 1850 by ship as a gold prospector during the Gold Rush. He traveled directly to the gold mines on initial arrival to the area and around Northern California to various mine locations before settling down. By 1854 Sears lands in a lumber town later to be named Searsville, during the early days before the city was developed. He built his Sears hotel on Sand Hill Road near the entrance of the city and because of his postal contract, he may have had directly influenced the naming of the town. Once the lumber industry had slowed down in Searsville, in 1862 he bought 400 acres of land in La Honda area and built the Old Store at La Honda and a hotel nearby. H ...
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Searsville, California
Searsville (c.1854–1891) was a San Mateo County, California town located in what is now the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve on Corte Madera Creek and adjacent to Woodside. At Northwest Corner Sandhill Road and Portola Road is a plaque and this location is a California Historical Landmark, since 1950. History Charles Brown, a former whaler from San Francisco purchased a portion of the Rancho Cañada de Raymundo Mexican-era land grant of John Coppinger and settled there with his wife. The newly acquired property was named the Mountain Home Ranch and previously had an adobe house built in 1839 (still located at the intersection of present day Portola Road and La Honda Road) and a sawmill. In 1852 John Smith joined Charles Brown at the Searsville site, and the next year August Eikerenkotter arrived and started a store and hotel. By 1854 John Howell Sears moved to the site, for whom the town was named based on his postal contract. Because of the Gold Rush, there was a strong ...
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James–Younger Gang
The James–Younger Gang was a notable 19th-century gang of United States, American outlaws that revolved around Jesse James and his brother Frank James. The gang was based in the state of Missouri, the home of most of the members. Membership fluctuated from robbery to robbery, as the outlaws' raids were usually separated by many months. As well as the notorious James brothers, at various times it included the Younger brothers (Cole Younger, Cole, Jim Younger, Jim, John Younger, John, and Bob Younger, Bob), John Jarrett (married to the Youngers' sister Josie), Arthur McCoy, George Shepherd, Oliver Shepherd, William McDaniel, Tom McDaniel, Clell Miller, Charlie Pitts (born Samuel A. Wells), and Bill Chadwell (alias Bill Stiles). The James–Younger Gang had its origins in a group of Confederate States of America, Confederate bushwhackers that participated in the bitter partisan fighting that wracked Missouri in the American Civil War, Missouri during the American Civil War. After ...
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