64,392
70%
$113,150
43.3%
America/Los_Angeles
94546 94552 94578
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Castro Valley, CA - History
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Welcome to the Castro Valley Home page. The Castro Valley Home page provides as much information as possible on Castro Valley. Knowing Castro Valley’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Castro Valley’s Home page, you will also find Castro Valley’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Castro Valley has a population of 64392. 49.2% of Castro Valley’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.8 are female. 54% of Castro Valley is married and 70.4% own their own home. The Average Home price is $812,209, and the average rent is $1,949. Household median income in Castro Valley is $113,150, and the individual median income is $50,020. Castro Valley’s Ethnic is the following: White(48.4%), Asian(28.5%), Hispanic(16.4%), Black(9.7%), Multiple(8.7%), Other(3.4%), Native(1%), Pacific(0.4%).
Before the arrival of European settlers the area was settled by the Chocheño (also spelled Chochenyo or Chocenyo) subdivision of the Ohlone Native Americans. With the arrival of Europeans, they established Mission San Jose in 1797. The area Castro Valley now occupies was part of the extensive colony of New Spain in what was the state of Alta California. Castro Valley was part of the original 28,000 acre (110 km2) land grant given to Castro in 1840, called Rancho San Lorenzo.
This land grant included Hayward, San Lorenzo, and Castro Valley, including Crow Canyon, Cull Canyon, and Palomares Canyons. Castro had a gambling habit and had to sell off portions of his land to pay gambling debts. The last of his holding was sold in a sheriff's sale in 1864 to Faxon Atherton for $400,000.Atherton (after whom the city of Atherton is named) in turn began selling off his portion in smaller parcels.
Two men named Cull (the namesake of Cull Canyon) and Luce bought some 2,400 acres (10 km2) and began running a steam-operated saw mill in Redwood Canyon. The Jensen brothers also bought land from Atherton in 1867. In 1866, Redwood school was built, the first public school in the area. Many Portuguese families immigrated to the surrounding canyons (especially Palomares Canyon) and farmed large amounts of land, where their descendants remain today.
In the 1870s, Lake Chabot, a reservoir and popular park, was built by Chinese laborers living at Camp Yema-Po. During the 1940s and 1950s, Castro Valley was known for its chicken ranches. Later it developed into a bedroom community, where workers live and commute to their jobs in the surrounding communities.
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