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Martinez, CA - History
We would like to provide the residents of Martinez a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Martinez Home page. The Martinez Home page provides as much information as possible on Martinez. Knowing Martinez’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Martinez’s Home page, you will also find Martinez’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Martinez has a population of 38397. 48.8% of Martinez’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.2 are female. 52% of Martinez is married and 69.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $622,804, and the average rent is $1,854. Household median income in Martinez is $109,994, and the individual median income is $54,825. Martinez’s Ethnic is the following: White(71.2%), Hispanic(17.3%), Multiple(11.1%), Asian(9.4%), Other(4.1%), Black(3.5%), Native(0.7%).
In 1824, the western side of Martinez, Alhambra Valley was included in the Rancho El Pinole Mexican land grant to Ygnacio Martínez. East of these lands was the Rancho Las Juntas, a grant made to Irish born William Welch in 1844; his land lay between the lands of Martinez and Pacheco. In 1847, Dr. Robert Semple contracted to provide ferry service from Martinez to Benicia, which for many years was the only crossing on the Carquinez Strait.
By 1849, Martínez served as a way station for the California Gold Rush. The town was laid out in 1849 by Col. William M. Smith and named for Martinez. It became the county seat in 1850, but could not incorporate at the time because it lacked the 200 registered voters required, and would not become a city until 1876.Martinez was the home of naturalist John Muir from 1880 until his death in 1914.
He was buried about a mile south of the building that is now the John Muir National Historic Site. Also nearby is the Vicente Martinez Adobe, built in 1849 by the son of Ygnacio Martinez.The first post office opened in 1851.In 1860, Martinez played a role in the Pony Express, where riders would take the ferry from Benicia (particularly if they missed the steamer in Sacramento).The first oil refinery in the Martinez area was built in 1904 at Bull's Head Point, a then-unincorporated waterfront area two miles east of the downtown district.
That area soon became known as Mococo, following the 1905 arrival of a smelting works, operated by the Mountain Copper Company (Mo Co Co). That first facility, operated by the Bull's Head Oil Company, was followed in 1908 by a test refinery built by the Pacific Coast Oil Company. Shortly thereafter, Pacific Coast became part of Standard Oil (now Chevron), and consolidated their oil refining operations in the Point Richmond, Hercules, Rodeo waterfront corridor some 12 miles (19 km) to the west of Martinez. In 1913, the Golden Eagle facility became the third oil refinery to be built in the area.
It was located in the newly-created company town of Avon, immediately to the East of Martinez. A fourth refinery, built by the Shell Oil Company on land adjacent to the Martinez City limits, went online in January 1916. The Shell Oil refining facility is still operational today (Currently owned by PBF Energy), maintaining the city's position as a significant petroleum processing center.
The Golden Eagle Refinery (currently owned by Marathon Petroleum Company) was idled in April 2020 as a response to lower petroleum demand during the COVID-19 pandemic.Folk etymology in Martinez claims the invention of the Martini cocktail and that it is named for the city.
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