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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XLS_zaballa-house-historical_Half-Moon-Bay-CA.html
After gold was discovered, the thousands who came to California began to build cities and towns. Today's Half Moon Bay grew upon the Mexican land grant awarded to Mexican soldier Candelario Miramontes.
In 1853 Estanislao Zaballa came from Spain …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1X2A_hotel-el-granada-historical_Half-Moon-Bay-CA.html
Hotel El Granada, a two-story stucco building in the Mission-style opened in 1908 with twenty guest rooms upstairs and a ballroom downstairs. The town's first commercial building and site of the first post office boasted of piped in water and a m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R9H_miramar-beach-restaurant_Half-Moon-Bay-CA.html
The Miramar Restaurant opened during Prohibition as the Ocean Beach Hotel, one of many local "speakeasies". Small "Rumrunners", laden with booze from large Canadian ships, prized our covert coves. While the Miramar served its thirsty patrons, auto…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QSG_ocean-shore-r-r-and-granada_Half-Moon-Bay-CA.html
The whistle of the first Ocean Shore Railroad passenger train from San Francisco to Granada echoed of nearby hills 21 June 1908. On board were 500 San Franciscans, great, good-time-loving people, who were treated to free picnic lunches and sales p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGXH_the-james-johnston-house_Half-Moon-Bay-CA.html
James Johnston, a forty-niner from Ohio, established a homestead on this wild, romantic vista of sloping fields and ocean shore in 1853. For his Californiano bride, Petra Maria de Jara, he built this typical eastern saltbox, whose origins from the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM98X_in-memorial-to-the-commercial-fisherman-lost-at-sea_Half-Moon-Bay-CA.html
Down to the sea in ships they go, these chosen men of steel. Though mist and foam and northwest wind is pounding at the keel. So sail they must each crispy morn, away from trees and sod. The sea may own their windburned flesh but their souls belon…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8X0_joseph-debenedetti-building_Half-Moon-Bay-CA.html
The decade of the 1870's saw an influx of European immigrants into the Half Moon Bay area and over to the coast. Irish, German, Italian, and Portuguese made up the majority of the newcomers whose numbers included merchants, business people, dairy …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6W8_the-determination-of-one-man_Half-Moon-Bay-CA.html
In October of 1906, Joseph Debenedetti constructed this two story mission revival commercial style building, which immediately became the center of commerce for Half Moon Bay and the surrounding area. Rising from the ashes of the devastating 1906 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6W6_first-concrete-bridge-erected-in-san-mateo-co_Half-Moon-Bay-CA.html
J. Debendetti SupervisorD. Bromfield & C. Tobey Jr. EngineersR.C. Mattingly & W. Heafey Contractors