East Contra Costa County

Book Description

Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2007 First edition. Signed by the author. 128pp. Profusely illustrated. Stiff pictorial wrappers. New. A well-illustrated history. The terminus of the first overland immigrant pack train destined for California was John Marsh's adobe in Brentwood, East Contra Costa County. Since 1841 this part of the county has been a grain and fruit basket to the world, a recreational playground for resort living, and a home for health and family life. Its wheat was exported for brewing Guinness beer, and fresh apricots, peaches, and cherries still bring produce fanciers for summer harvest. Weekenders houseboat, wakeboard, and fish through the region's thousands of miles of delta waterways. The author presents a wonderful history of the county via hundreds of pictorial postcards. Includes the communities of Brentwood, Bethel Island, Byron, Discovery Bay, Knightsen, and Oakley and traces their importance in settling and developing the Golden State. This work is included within Arcadia Publishing's "Postcard History" series..

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