San Ramon real estate can be an smart and exciting investment. The San Ramon community is strong, interactive, and growing and the real estate market mirrors that activity. Whether you are buying, selling, or refinancing a home in San Ramon, you should make sure that you are informed about the area.
The city of San […]
Buying a Home
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CONTRA COSTA — It’s a sunny Saturday morning, and Pleasanton’s outdoor farmers market teems with people enjoying the small-town atmosphere, buying fruits and vegetables, chatting or sipping coffee.
Nearby, supporters of a ballot initiative designed to halt urban sprawl hand out flyers, warning passers-by that unchecked growth is threatening to destroy such places throughout the […]
Real estate values have seen a phenomenal rise over the last several years in Northern California. This is due at least in part as a result of interest rates being at a 40 year low. With the Fed raising interest rates on November 10th for the second time in just a few months and indicating […]
The Sword and the Cross
The Hispanic era in San Ramon Valley from 1772-1830
Written by Beverly Lane to accompany the 1993 exhibit mounted by the Museum of the San Ramon Valley.
The year was 1772. That spring Europeans traveled into the San Ramon Valley for the first time, camping overnight in Danville and continuing south […]
Location: Incorporated on July 1, 1983, the City of San Ramon is located in Contra Costa County on 11 square miles of the San Ramon Valley, approximately 25 miles east of the City of Oakland in the San Francisco Bay Area. The San Ramon Valley has long been considered one of the most desirable living […]
San Ramon Pioneers Joel Harlan, Minerva Fowler and Leo and Jane Norris came to California in 1846 and resisted going with the Donner party on their new route. They missed the early Sierra winter and the Donners did not.
A leaning live oak, seen on the hillside from Bollinger Canyon and Anza Court, was a corner […]
In 1997, Ruth Quayle Boone bequeathed the 16-acre Boone family farm known as Forest Home Farms, at 19953 San Ramon Valley Boulevard, to the City of San Ramon for use as a municipal historic park in memory of her husband, Travis Moore Boone. After Ruth Boone’s death in 1998 at the age of 94, the […]
History of the San Ramon Branch Line
1891-1978
Information taken from San Ramon Branch Line of the Southern Pacific by Irma M. Dotson.
Arrival of the Railroad
America’s Golden Age of Railroads began in the late nineteenth century. California’s first railroad was built in Sacramento in 1856 and the transcontinental line was completed when the “Golden Spike” […]
The Railroad Comes To the San Ramon Valley
Written by Beverly Lane, based on the book by Irma M. Dotson, “San Ramon Branch of the Southern Pacific”.
One hundred years ago California was railroad country. In 1869 the Golden Spike celebration commemorated the fact that rails stretched across the entire country. Small farming community leaders believed […]
