The events of historical sketch are shown the main phases of San Mateo, CA City. In 1776, Spanish explorers came to todays San Mateo, CA. During a scouting trip to locate a place to start a colony on the Peninsula, Lieutenant Colonel Juan Bautista de Anza, Padre Pedro Font, Lieutenant Jose Joaquin Moraga, and eleven soldiers set up camp in San Mateo, CA. Father Font named the creek that they slept by San Mateo, CA Creek. In 1793, the mission fathers in San Francisco created an outpost of the mission on the Peninsula. The outpost was at San Mateo, CA Creek and was established to bring the Church to the Peninsula, to organize and oversee the newly converted Christians in livestock herding, and to provide food for the Mission. The outpost was the first building built in San Mateo, CA by non-natives. In 1822, California received word of Mexicos independence from Spanish rule. This Rancho period lasted about thirty years. Rancho San Mateo, CA, which comprised what is today south Burlingame, all of Hillsborough, and north San Mateo, CA was sold to the American mercantile firm of Mellus and Howard for four dollars an acre. In 1850, Howard built the first of the great homes of the area, El Cerrito, on the property. The San Mateo, CA County Board of Supervisors appointed a fire commission at May 7 1887. The Commission then held an election to raise money for a hose, hose cart, hook and ladder unit, and a building in which to store them-the volunteer fire department was officially organized on March 18, 1889.
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