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San Carlos, California City of San Carlos San Carlos Train Station San Carlos Train Station Official seal of San Carlos, California Location in San Mateo County and the state of California Location in San Mateo County and the state of California San Carlos, California is positioned in the US San Carlos, California - San Carlos, California County San Mateo San Carlos is a town/city in San Mateo County, California on the San Francisco Peninsula, about halfway between San Francisco and San Jose.
San Carlos, "The City of Good Living", aims for a "small town" feel. Its chief downtown region is composed mostly of small shops and restaurants.
San Carlos was the first town/city in California to open a charter school (San Carlos Charter Learning Center), and its schools project persistently well in statewide lists.
San Carlos is home to San Carlos Airport and two exhibitions.
Located downtown, the San Carlos History Museum is dedicated to the display of the history of the town from early Native American history to the space age.
Transportation options include membership in the Sam - Trans (San Mateo County Transit) bus fitness and a Caltrain station.
The administrative command posts of both agencies are positioned at 1250 San Carlos Avenue.
San Carlos was also once home of the Circle Star Theater where performers such as Richard Marx and Richard Pryor performed.
San Carlos also once boasted the 2,500 student San Carlos High School which was closed in 1982 due to declining enrollment.
Today, students travel to Belmont's Carlmont High School or Redwood City's Sequoia High School to receive their enhance secondary education.
In October, the Chamber of Commerce hosts the San Carlos "Art & Wine Faire".
Prior to the Spanish arrival in 1769, the territory of San Carlos was occupied by a group of Native Americans who called themselves the Lamchins.
There was plentiful game and fowl available, and fish could be caught in the San Francisco Bay.
The Lamchin permanent village is thought to have been between the undivided streets of Alameda de las Pulgas and Cordilleras Avenue, near San Carlos Avenue.
In 1769, Gaspar de Portola was the first westerner to reach the San Francisco Bay.
While early historians placed his approach to the Bay from the Pacific Ocean as coming over the San Carlos hills, present researchers believe this "discovery" actually occurred in present-day Belmont.
A mission was established in San Francisco, and territory was deeded in large "ranchos", or ranches, to prominent and wealthy Spaniards, with no concern for the native populations that lived on them.
The territory now occupied by the town/city of San Carlos was deeded as a single large rancho to Don Jose Dario Arguello.
While the port of Redwood City, to the south, and the town of Belmont, to the north, both interval quickly in the late 19th century, San Carlos' expansion was much slower.
Timothy Phelps, a wealthy politician, made an early attempt to further precarious the San Carlos area.
Smith's San Carlos Land Development Company.
Some maps are existent referring to the region as "Lomitas" ("little hills" in Spanish) but eventually due to historical legend, the name "San Carlos" was chosen.
As noted previously, it was believed that Portola had first seen the San Francisco Bay on November 4 from the San Carlos hills.
As well, the Spanish king at the time was Carlos III, and the first ship to sail into San Francisco bay was the San Carlos.
The newly titled region not yet incorporated received a boost with the assembly of the Peninsula Railroad Corridor in 1863, and the addition, of a station at San Carlos in 1888.
Growth remained slow through the turn of the 20th century, with most inhabitants appreciateing the short 35-minute train ride to San Francisco while living in a non-urban setting.
Even with the accomplishments of the developers, expansion was very slow in this period, and San Carlos ended the 19th century with severaler than one hundred homes and families.
One year previously Frederick Drake ("The Father of San Carlos") had purchased 130 acres (53 hectares) of real estate in San Carlos in foreclosure, and began marketing it.
Growth came quickly, and the early 1920s saw Drake build an office at the southwest corner of Cypress (now San Carlos Ave) and El Camino Real, which is still existent, and as of May 2013 is home to an AT&T Cellular store.
Were removed, and the street widened and retitled San Carlos Ave.
The Great Depression affected families in San Carlos, as it did everywhere, but expansion continued, and populace interval from approximately 600 at incorporation in 1925 to 5,000 in 1941.
While services such as stores increased in this period, by the beginning of World War II San Carlos was still known in the Bay Area as a non-urban community.
In October 1942, the US Army and "Dogs for Defense" came to San Carlos.
The first enlisted men for the army post were temporarily homed in the San Carlos Fire Station (located on Laurel Street between San Carlos Ave.
When they left San Carlos, on May 11, 1944, none of the handlers knew what their final destination would be.
Establishment of these two firms was a factor in the quadrupling of San Carlos populace in the decade after 1940.
In the late 1940s when Bayshore was a two-lane road, the San Carlos Airport was moved from its former locale between Brittan and San Carlos Avenues to its present site.
On June 12, 2013, Surf Air began regularly scheduled air service from San Carlos airport to Burbank.
Bob Wasserman, former San Carlos police chief (1969 1972) and Mayor of Fremont, California (2004-2011) San Carlos is positioned at 37 29 57 N 122 15 48 W. The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that San Carlos had a populace of 28,406.
The ethnic makeup of San Carlos was 22,497 (79.2%) White, 233 (0.8%) African American, 65 (0.2%) Native American, 3,267 (11.5%) Asian, 70 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 827 (2.9%) from other competitions, and 1,447 (5.1%) from two or more competitions.
The populace was spread out with 6,699 citizens (23.6%) under the age of 18, 1,176 citizens (4.1%) aged 18 to 24, 7,657 citizens (27.0%) aged 25 to 44, 8,827 citizens (31.1%) aged 45 to 64, and 4,047 citizens (14.2%) who were 65 years of age or older.
21,635 citizens (76.2% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 6,680 citizens (23.5%) lived in rental housing units.
Companies based in San Carlos include Check Point, Kelly-Moore Paints, Mark - Logic, and Natera.
The current mayor of San Carlos is Cameron Johnson.
In the California State Legislature, San Carlos is in the 13th Senate District, represented by Democrat Jerry Hill, and in the 22nd Assembly District, represented by Democrat Kevin Mullin. In the United States House of Representatives, San Carlos is in California's 14th congressional district, represented by Democrat Jackie Speier. The enhance schools in San Carlos are run by the San Carlos School District, although the school precinct boundaries do not cover the entire town/city of San Carlos.
There are a several elementary schools (K-4) and a several middle schools (5-8), (Carlmont High School) nearest enhance high school in the neighboring town/city of Belmont since the 1982 closure of San Carlos High School.
Up until 1982 San Carlos had its own enhance high school, San Carlos High School.
It was closed due to a diminish in student enrollment from an overall aging of San Carlos residents, with the students of San Carlos middle schools divided up among the close-by Carlmont High School in Belmont and Sequoia High School in Redwood City.
The town/city is served by the San Carlos Public Library of the San Mateo County Libraries, a member of the Peninsula Library System.
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