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San Mateo, 1862-1899

Perhaps helping to determine whether El Camino Real was realigned between 1853 and 1892 in San Mateo. Here it looks like it stayed in pretty much the same place at the center of San Mateo and Millbrae, but was straightened and shifted around a bit in between.

 

(Top: from U.S. Coast Survey "Upper Part of San Francisco Bay." Bottom: from U.S. Geological Survey San Mateo Quadrangle.)

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Uploaded on March 1, 2012