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Incorporated cities and towns in California
- Pasadena, CaliforniaIn 1873, Dr. Daniel M. Berry of Indiana arrived at Rancho San Pascual seeking a mild climate for his patients suffering from respiratory ailments.
- San DiegoSan Diego sits on the Pacific coast of Southern California, sharing a 15-mile border with Mexico and earning a designation no other American city can claim…
- Sacramento, CaliforniaSacramento sits at the meeting point of two rivers, the Sacramento and the American, in a valley that a Spanish soldier once said smelled like champagne.
- Oakland, CaliforniaOakland, California sits on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay, and for most of its history it has lived in the shadow of the city visible across the…
- Dana Point, CaliforniaDana Point sits on a stretch of Southern California coast that a 19th-century sailor once called "the only romantic spot on the coast." That sailor was…
- Santa Barbara, CaliforniaSanta Barbara sits where the Santa Ynez Mountains meet the Pacific Ocean, pinned between steep ridges and a south-facing coastline that is the longest such…
- San Jose, CaliforniaSan Jose was founded on the 29th of November 1777 , before the United States even had a Constitution , as the Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, the first…
- Goleta, CaliforniaGoleta, California takes its name from a wreck. Sometime after the 1770s, a sailing ship called a goleta ran aground at the mouth of a coastal lagoon, sat…
- Irvine, CaliforniaThe Kizh people, also known as the Tongva or Gabrieleño, inhabited the land that is now Irvine for thousands of years before European contact.
- Santa Clara, CaliforniaSanta Clara, California sits at the geographic heart of Silicon Valley, yet its story begins not with microchips but with a Spanish mission founded in 1777.
- Inglewood, CaliforniaInglewood, California sits in southwestern Los Angeles County, close enough to Los Angeles International Airport that jets pass overhead on their way in and…
- Berkeley, CaliforniaBerkeley, California sits on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay, a city of 124,321 people whose name traces back to a quote from an 18th-century Irish…
- San FranciscoSan Francisco sits at the tip of a narrow peninsula jutting into one of the world's great natural harbors, and for nearly three centuries it has pulled…
- Alameda, CaliforniaFor more than 3,000 years, a local band of the Ohlone tribe inhabited the low-lying marshy region that would become Alameda.
- Los AngelesLos Angeles spreads across roughly 469 square miles of land between the Pacific Ocean and the San Gabriel Mountains, and inside that footprint live an…