Alisal, Pleasanton, California
Alisal, or El Alisal (The Sycamores), was a
Alisal, nicknamed "The Most Desperate Town in the West",
During the period of the railroad boom in the late 1860s, Rancho Santa Rita was sub divided. In 1869 J.W. Kottinger and J.A. Neal each laid out and plotted a subdivision for a new town called Alisal, situated about five miles south of Dublin. By 1878 the village was an unincorporated town of about 500 people.
Alisal was later included within Pleasanton, California that was founded in 1894.
Notes
- ^ Francisco Solano Alviso Adobe, California State Historic Marker Number 510, The Historical Marker Database, accessed January 6, 2012
- ^ Patricia Soito, A hundred years of Pleasanton, "The most desperate town in the West", Phillips & Van Orden Co., San Francisco, 1949
- ^ John Boessenecker, Lawman: the life and times of Harry Morse, 1835-1912, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1998, p.4, 26-28, 30, 32-33, 57, 59, 76-77, 81, 88, 159