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Welcome to the Gonzales Home page. The Gonzales Home page provides as much information as possible on Gonzales. Knowing Gonzales’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Gonzales’s Home page, you will also find Gonzales’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Gonzales has a population of 8348. 52.8% of Gonzales’s inhabitants are Male, and 47.2 are female. 51.7% of Gonzales is married and 55.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $392,619, and the average rent is $1,162. Household median income in Gonzales is $69,136, and the individual median income is $30,099. Gonzales’s Ethnic is the following: Hispanic(92.2%), Other(58.1%), White(30.7%), Multiple(8.2%), Asian(1.6%), Native(0.6%), Black(0.5%), Pacific(0.4%).


Gonzales was founded by Dr. Mariano Gonzalez and his brother Alfredo Gonzales on land that was originally Rancho Rincon de la Puente del Monte. The rancho was given to their father, Teodoro Gonzalez, in 1836 while he was serving as alcalde of Monterey. The brothers laid out the 50-block town on approximately 15,000 acres (6,100 ha) in 1874 in a grid of northeast to southwest and northwest to southeast streets.


In 1872, they granted a 100 feet (30 m) right-of-way through town to Southern Pacific Railroad, which subsequently built a depot for freight and passengers. The dominant commerce at the time was grain raising and cattle ranching. The Gonzalez brothers are also credited with constructing one of the first irrigation systems in the Salinas Valley.


They built a dam and head gate on the nearby Salinas River and miles of canals throughout the area. In the early 1900s, Gonzales became a predominantly Swiss dairy community when John B. Meyenberg brought his original milk processing procedures to the region. His Alpine Milk Company, later known as the Meyenberg Milk Products Company, opened its first plant in Gonzales in 1906.


At one time, there were 7,000 cows within five miles of town being milked.Prior to being nicknamed the "Wine Capital of Monterey County", Gonzales was known as "The Heart of the Salad Bowl" (due to its central location in the agricultural valley). Before that it was nicknamed "Little Switzerland" (due to the similarities of the valley landscape to Switzerland as well as the predominantly Swiss community at the time).Dairy farming gave way to orchards and row crops in the 1920s and prospered due to the rich soil and advancements in irrigation, machinery and transportation facilities.


These improvements to agriculture technology turned the Salinas Valley into the nation's premier agricultural center. Today, there is only one dairy farm left near town. The first school house was built in 1874. The first church, the Gonzales Baptist Church, was built in 1884 and still holds weekly worship services today.St.


Theodore Catholic Church, named for Teodoro Gonzales, was built in 1883. The town was officially incorporated January 10, 1947.


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