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A History of the Menlo Park Train Station
It takes some looking around, but Menlo Park has quite a few buildings dating back before the 1900s.
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History of the Morey Family
Steve presented his slides, beginning with the 1860 Boston census listing of his great- grandfather Henry H.B. “Harry” Morey, then six-years-old, who came to San Francisco in the 1870s. One of the family businesses, Peninsula Building Materials, was founded on El Camino Real in the year 1923—100 years ago in 2023.
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The Streets of Menlo Park: Origins of the Street Names
Learn about how Alma, Middlefield, Santa Cruz, Sand Hill, Willow, Valparaiso and more got their names
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