Editing Moraga, California (section)

==History==
[[File:Joaquín Moraga.gif|thumb|left|180px|Moraga is named after Joaquín Moraga, the [[Californio]] ranchero who founded the town. He was the son and grandson of famed expeditionaries [[Gabriel Moraga]] and [[José Joaquín Moraga]].]]
The land now called Moraga was first inhabited by the [[Saklan tribe|Saklan]] [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] who belonged to the [[Bay Miwok]] language group.<ref>[http://www.mdia.org/Cultural%20History/Earlyinhabitants.htm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401100824/http://www.mdia.org/Cultural%20History/Earlyinhabitants.htm|date=April 1, 2012}}</ref>

Joaquin Moraga was the grandson of [[José Joaquín Moraga]], builder of the [[Presidio of San Francisco]] and founder of the pueblo that grew into the city of [[History of San Jose, California|San Jose]]. Joaquin's father [[Gabriel Moraga]] was also a soldier, and an early explorer who named many of the state's rivers, including the [[Sacramento River|Sacramento]] and [[San Joaquin River|San Joaquin]].

Moraga is located on the 1835 Mexican Land Grant [[Rancho Laguna de los Palos Colorados]] given to Joaquin Moraga and his cousin, Juan Bernal. Part of that grant was the property today known as Moraga Ranch. The [[Moraga Adobe]] has been preserved and is located in neighboring [[Orinda, California|Orinda]]. Joaquin Moraga Intermediate School, a middle school in Moraga, bears his name.

In the first half of the 20th century, the line of the [[Sacramento Northern Railroad]] ran through Moraga; much of the old right-of-way is now part of the [[Lafayette-Moraga Regional Trail]].

Moraga's first post office opened in 1886, and was closed in 1887; it reopened in 1915.<ref name=CGN>{{California's Geographic Names|666}}</ref> In 1955, Moraga built a new post office.
[[Saint Mary's College of California]] moved to Moraga in 1928.
Moraga incorporated in 1974, when the communities of ''Moraga Town'', ''Rheem'', and ''Rheem Valley'', united into one town.<ref name="gnis|1659171">{{Cite GNIS|1659171|Moraga}}</ref>

In June 2017, Moraga declared a fiscal emergency, because a [[sinkhole]] in the downtown area and a failed bridge on Canyon Road were expected to cost $5 million to repair.<ref>{{cite news |title=Moraga sinks into fiscal straits |date=August 1, 2017 |author=Allison Graham |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle}}</ref>