Howard-Ralston Eucalyptus Tree Rows
- Address: El Camino Real
- Vicinity: Through the cities of Burlingame and Hillsborough, in the N part of the former Rancho San Mateo and the southern Rancho Buri Buri
Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1856/00/00 | William Davis Merry Howard | Died | After the death of San Francisco merchant William Davis Merry Howard, William C Ralston buys his estate. | |||
1856/00/00 | William C Ralston | Home Locale | After the death of San Francisco merchant William Davis Merry Howard, William C Ralston buys his estate. | |||
1870/00/00 | George Henry Howard | Benefactor | One evening, in the 1870s, when George Howard invites neighbors, including William Ralston and D O Mills, to his El Cerrito home (razed, near El Cerrito Ave) to discuss a desire to line the roads with shade trees which would also serve as a windbreak. | |||
1873/00/00 | John McLaren (horticulturist) | Landscape Architect | Between 1873 and 1876, John McLaren plants 2 or 3 rows of English elms, mixed with eucalyptus along 4 miles of county roads for property owners George H Howard and William C Ralston. Less than 2.2 miles with a single row of trees remain. | |||
1925/00/00 | During the 1920s, property owners indiscriminately cut down trees, resulting in the City of Burlingame enacting a zoning ordinance to protect the roadway from further commercial development. |
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