Editing Dublin, California (section)

==History==
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[[File:José María Amador (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|upright|Dublin was originally part of [[Rancho San Ramon (Amador)|Rancho San Ramón]], granted in 1834 to [[José María Amador]], a [[Californio]] miner and ranchero. The area was known as Amador until the name was changed to Dublin.]]
[[File:Murray Schoolhouse, 1856, Dublin, CA.jpg|thumb|The Murray Schoolhouse was built in 1856 and moved twice to its present location in the Dublin Heritage Center.]]
[[File:2009-0724-CA-Dublin-GreensStore.jpg|thumb|Historic Green's Store is now used as a church.]]

In 1835, [[José María Amador]] was granted 16,500 acres for his service as a Mexican soldier and in Mission San Jose where he was an administrator in the valley which was named [[Amador Valley]] after him. In 1850, Irish settlers bought land from Amador and founded a town.

Several historical sites are preserved and located where Dublin Boulevard is crossed by Donlon Way, itself formerly the northernmost segment of the main road to [[Sunol, California|Sunol]] and [[Niles Canyon]] (present-day Foothill Road):
* The Murray Schoolhouse (established in 1856 with 50 pupils)
* Green's Store (opened in 1860) current home of the Dublin Church of Christ.
* [[Dublin Pioneer Cemetery|The old cemetery]] was formally established in 1859, although people had been buried in the churchyard for years before 1859.
* Old St. Raymond Church (built in 1859) is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]

Dublin [[Boulevard]], a generally east–west road running just north of [[Interstate 580 (California)|Interstate 580]], was a part of the [[Lincoln Highway]] and later [[U.S. Route 50 in California|U.S. Route 50]]. The street formerly curved southward near today's Hansen Drive to follow present-day Dublin Canyon Road toward [[Hayward, California|Hayward]].

In 1960, the first housing tracts were built in West Dublin, transforming the formerly rural community into a suburb. It grew steadily from the early 1960s onward as both a residential and retail center. The City became incorporated in February 1982.

Although a post office operated from 1860 to 1908 in [[Dougherty, Alameda County, California|Dougherty]], which broke off from Dublin, Dublin's first post office was opened in 1963, and is still in operation today.<ref name=CGN>{{California's Geographic Names|626}}</ref>

Dublin housed a federal low security women's prison, [[Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin|FCI Dublin]], until it shut down in 2024. Many employees were convicted of [[sexual abuse|sexually abusing]] prisoners. The US government agreed to pay over 100 million dollars to the victims.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sisak |first1=Michael R. |last2=Balsamo |first2=Michael |title=US to pay nearly $116M to settle lawsuits over rampant sexual abuse at California women's prison |url=https://apnews.com/article/federal-prisons-dublin-sexual-abuse-lawsuit-settlement-8265b20642f7233ae9767578691154c1 |accessdate=March 6, 2025 |work=Associated Press |date=December 17, 2024}}</ref>

===''MythBusters'' cannonball incident===
{{see also|MythBusters#Cannonball accident{{!}}''MythBusters'' § Cannonball accident}}
On December 6, 2011, during shooting for an episode of ''[[MythBusters]]'' at Camp Parks, a cannonball went skyward and zoomed through a nearby residence, coming to rest in a car. Many residents were shaken and the community was shocked, but nobody was injured. ''MythBusters'' cast members [[Adam Savage]] and [[Kari Byron]] hosted a student engineering event at Dublin High School, a move to express gratitude to the community of Dublin for the access to Camp Parks as a shooting location. The Dublin Film Commission declared December 6 "Victory in the battle for Dublin", poking at the rogue cannonball incident, and announced plans to host a film festival every December 6 to honor Dublin's fallen cannonball. On December 6, 2012, Tri-Valley Film Coalition President Morgan Finley King hosted a film festival at the Dublin Library, in which winners of each category were awarded a "Golden Cannonball Award".<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/06/BA1D1M99V5.DTL | work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] | first1=Demian | last1=Bulwa | first2=Henry K. | last2=Lee | title='Mythbusters' cannonball hits Dublin home, minivan | date=January 6, 2012}}</ref>

===Measure M===
{{Further|California housing shortage}}
In 2000, following a conflict with Mayor [[Guy Houston]] and developers of the West Dublin Hills, Morgan King and David Bewley began a ballot initiative known as Measure M. The objective of the measure was to prevent the Dublin Hills from becoming overwhelmed with housing that had been promised to voters and that the housing would not be built on preserved open space.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/City_of_Dublin_Annexation_of_Doolan_Canyon,_Measure_T_(November_2014)|title=City of Dublin Annexation of Doolan Canyon, Measure T (November 2014)|website=Ballotpedia}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mercurynews.com/2014/01/31/dublin-ballot-measure-would-create-growth-restrictions-on-east-side/|title = Dublin ballot measure would create growth restrictions on east side|date = January 31, 2014}}</ref> Measure M won in every precinct in Dublin and on the absentee ballots.<ref>City Council Minutes March 19, 2001</ref>