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16,896
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$152,788
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Moraga, CA - History
We would like to provide the residents of Moraga a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Moraga Home page. The Moraga Home page provides as much information as possible on Moraga. Knowing Moraga’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Moraga’s Home page, you will also find Moraga’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Moraga has a population of 16896. 48% of Moraga’s inhabitants are Male, and 52 are female. 56.1% of Moraga is married and 82.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $1,174,970, and the average rent is $2,311. Household median income in Moraga is $152,788, and the individual median income is $50,929. Moraga’s Ethnic is the following: White(69.7%), Asian(19.4%), Hispanic(7.6%), Multiple(7.5%), Other(1.5%), Pacific(1.1%), Black(0.7%), Native(0.1%).
The land now called Moraga was first inhabited by the Saklan Native Americans who belonged to the Bay Miwok language group.Joaquin Moraga was the grandson of José Joaquín Moraga, builder of the Presidio of San Francisco and founder of the pueblo that grew into the city of San Jose. Joaquin's father Gabriel Moraga was also a soldier, and an early explorer who named many of the state's rivers, including the Sacramento and San Joaquin. Moraga is located on the 1835 Mexican Land Grant Rancho Laguna de Los Palos Colorados given to Joaquin Moraga and his cousin, Juan Bernal.
Part of that grant was the property today known as Moraga Ranch. The Moraga Adobe has been preserved and is located in neighboring Orinda. Joaquin Moraga Intermediate School, a middle school in Moraga, bears his name. In the first half of the 20th century, the line of the Sacramento Northern Railroad ran through Moraga; much of the old right-of-way is now part of the Lafayette-Moraga Regional Trail. Moraga's first post office opened in 1886, and was closed in 1887; it reopened in 1915.
In 1955, Moraga built a new post office. Saint Mary's College of California moved to Moraga in 1928. Moraga incorporated in 1974, when the communities of Moraga Town, Rheem, and Rheem Valley, united into one town.In June 2017, Moraga declared a fiscal emergency, because a sinkhole in the downtown area and a failed bridge on Canyon Road were expected to cost $5 million to repair.
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