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19,343
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$104,904
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America/Los_Angeles
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Pinole, CA - History
We would like to provide the residents of Pinole a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Pinole Home page. The Pinole Home page provides as much information as possible on Pinole. Knowing Pinole’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Pinole’s Home page, you will also find Pinole’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Pinole has a population of 19343. 46.8% of Pinole’s inhabitants are Male, and 53.2 are female. 51.6% of Pinole is married and 69.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $567,896, and the average rent is $1,974. Household median income in Pinole is $104,904, and the individual median income is $45,734. Pinole’s Ethnic is the following: White(42.4%), Asian(25%), Hispanic(24.3%), Black(11.1%), Other(10.7%), Multiple(10.3%), Native(0.4%), Pacific(0.1%).
The name derives from "pinole", a Nāhuatl word for a kind of flour made from the seeds of maize, chia, and various other grasses and annual herbs. An expedition under Pedro Fages was said to have run out of provisions while exploring the area, and to have been fed pinole by a local village, and so the Spaniards named their camp "El Pinole". In 1823, Ygnacio Martínez, commandant of the Presidio of San Francisco, received a land grant of Rancho El Pinole from the Mexican government.
Martinez built a hacienda in Pinole Valley at the present site of Pinole Valley Park. During the 1850s, Bernardo Fernandez, a Portuguese immigrant, started a trading facility on the shores of San Pablo Bay and eventually built the historic Fernandez Mansion, which still stands today at the end of Tennent Avenue.
From these early beginnings, a small but thriving community grew into the city now known as Pinole. The settlement grew with the coming of the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1878 and the establishment of the California Powder Works in nearby Hercules. During this period, this city had an active waterfront and was a regional commercial and banking center.
The first post office also opened in 1878. The City of Pinole was incorporated in 1903.Pinole and the surrounding area grew rapidly during the post-World War II boom. With the coming of Interstate 80 in 1958, the town evolved into a suburban bedroom community within the San Francisco/Oakland commuter belt.
Much of its original industry was displaced during this time, and the town became predominantly residential. Today, the town is locally known for its "big box" shopping store district along Fitzgerald Drive, and Pinole Vista Shopping Center, which is contiguous with Richmond's Hilltop Area. The downtown area still retains much turn-of-the-century building stock and is being preserved by the city's development agency as a historic area.
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