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The earliest known inhabitants of the Redwood City area were the Ohlone, who were living there when the Spanish claimed the land and founded their missions. In 1835 the Mexican government granted the land, as part of Rancho de las Pulgas, to the Arguello family. After the Mexican-American War, when California became part of the United States, the family's title was challenged, and their lawyer, Simon M. Mezes, defended the claim with partial success in 1854 and was allowed to buy the part of the estate that is now Redwood City. Mezes sold some of the land to squatters already living along Redwood Creek and named the settlement Mezesville. The name did not last, but Mezes Park survives on land he gave as open space.

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Redwood City has been the seat of San Mateo County since the county was formed in 1856, and in 1867 it became the first city in the county to incorporate. In 1907 the Japanese immigrant brothers Eikichi and Sadakusi Enomoto grew what may have been the first commercially grown chrysanthemums in the United States in Redwood City, and in 1926 the chamber of commerce proclaimed it the Chrysanthemum Center of the World. The wartime removal and internment of Japanese Americans, among other factors, helped bring flower growing to an end as a major local industry. The city stretches from San Francisco Bay toward the Santa Cruz Mountains between San Carlos and Atherton. Sources Wikipedia: Redwood City, California