There is some racist language in the place names below. The article is from 1892. - MF
STICKING LABELS ON TOWNS.
A Queer Mixture of Languages in Alameda County Names.
SPANISH, INDIAN, ENGLISH AND IMPROPRIETY.
Combining in One Name a Row of Poplars and a Grove of Live Oaks - Robbing Old Associations of the Soft Spanish Titles That Belong to Them - Railroad and Postal Sponsors.
Contra Costa was the original name of a little settlement on the bank of the estuary of San Antonio, a cluster of houses on the grant to Don Luis Maria Peralta, the most magnificent estate ever owned by one man in California.
