Editing Brisbane, California (section)

==History==
[[File:Unincorporated Brisbane.jpg|thumb|Recorded streets as of 1938]]
The first recorded inhabitants were the [[Costanoan]] Indians. They built dome-shaped dwellings of boughs and tules. By 1776, Spanish explorers had arrived and the Franciscan missionaries soon followed leaving numerous large land grants in their wake. With Mexican rule, the lands controlled by the Mission were released to private enterprise.

Brisbane was originally part of [[Rancho Cañada de Guadalupe la Visitación y Rodeo Viejo]], a large tract of land that included the Cañada de Guadalupe (now [[Guadalupe Valley]]), and also the Bayshore district of Daly City, the [[Visitacion Valley]] district of San Francisco, and [[San Bruno Mountain]]. Visitacion City, as it was initially known, was platted in 1908<ref name="ci.brisbane.ca.us">''City of Brisbane - City History'' Chapter 1; {{cite web |url=http://www.ci.brisbane.ca.us/html/about/spirit/chapter1.asp |title=City of Brisbane - City History |access-date=June 18, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080218234545/http://www.ci.brisbane.ca.us/html/about/spirit/chapter1.asp |archive-date=February 18, 2008 }}</ref> adjacent to a new rail line that had been completed in 1907 to the east of the town site. The [[Southern Pacific Railroad]] built the new line to create a faster and more direct route into San Francisco. The railroad also planned to build extensive terminal facilities just north of the town site.<ref>San Francisco Morning Call; January 14, 1907</ref>  The Visitacion Valley rail yard and locomotive works were expected to employ over 1,000 workers, but construction was halted soon after it began due to the [[Panic of 1907]].<ref name="ReferenceA">"Vast Railroad Shops Building at Visitacion," San Francisco Chronicle; July 7, 1917</ref> The town site remained largely undeveloped for many years.<ref name="ci.brisbane.ca.us" />  The railroad resumed construction of the yard and shops during [[World War I]], and the facilities were completed by 1918.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

The city is served by [[San Mateo County Libraries]].

In the 1920s Arthur Annis<ref>Note - some sources spell the name as Arthur Ennis.</ref> proposed the name change from Visitacion City to Brisbane.  Annis regarded the name Visitacion City as a handicap "being so close to a San Francisco city district with a similar name", which he felt would confuse people and prevent "Brisbane" from establishing its own unique identity. Accounts of how the city acquired its name vary. According to his daughter, the city was named for [[Brisbane]], [[Queensland]],<ref>Which was named after Sir [[Thomas Brisbane]], an astronomer and [[Governor of New South Wales]]. The [[Brisbane (lunar crater)|Brisbane crater]] on the Moon was also named after Sir Thomas Brisbane.</ref> perhaps due to the area's resemblance to that port city at the time.<ref>''City of Brisbane - City History'' Chapter 2; {{cite web |url=http://www.ci.brisbane.ca.us/html/about/spirit/chapter2.asp |title=City of Brisbane - City History |access-date=October 31, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071114135603/http://www.ci.brisbane.ca.us/html/about/spirit/chapter2.asp |archive-date=November 14, 2007 }}  A few sources state that Annis live for a short time in Brisbane Australia.</ref> Another story holds that it was named for newspaper columnist [[Arthur Brisbane]].<ref>''Gateway to the Peninsula'' by Samuel C. Chandler, Daly City, CA: The City of Daly City, 1973. [http://www.dalycityhistory.org/Gateway/Ch28.pdf Chapter 28: "Brisbane"].</ref>