Editing San Leandro, California (section)

=== Spanish and Mexican eras ===
[[File:Jose Joaquin Estudillo (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[Californio]] statesman [[José Joaquín Estudillo]], founder of San Leandro.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ci.san-leandro.ca.us/slcityhistory.html | title=City History | publisher=City of San Leandro | accessdate=2008-01-27 | archive-date=2020-02-06 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200206000520/http://www.ci.san-leandro.ca.us/slcityhistory.html | url-status=dead }}</ref>]]
The Spanish settlers called these natives ''Costeños'', or 'coast people,' and the English-speaking settlers called them [[Ohlone|Costanoans]]. San Leandro was first visited by Europeans on March 20, 1772, by Spanish soldier Captain [[Pedro Fages]] and the Spanish Catholic priest Father Crespi.

San Leandro is located on the [[Rancho San Leandro]] and [[Rancho San Antonio (Peralta)|Rancho San Antonio]] [[Ranchos of California|Mexican land grants]]. Its name refers to [[Leander of Seville]], a sixth-century Spanish bishop.{{sfn|Simons|2008|p=8}} Both land grants were located along [[El Camino Viejo]], modern 14th Street / State Route 185.

The smaller land grant, Rancho San Leandro, of approximately {{convert|9000|acre|ha}}, was given to [[José Joaquín Estudillo]] in 1842. The larger, Rancho San Antonio, of approximately {{convert|44000|acre|ha}}, was given to another Spanish soldier, Don Luis Maria Peralta, in 1820. Beginning in 1855, two of Estudillo's sons-in-law, John B. Ward and [[William Heath Davis]], laid out the townsite that would become San Leandro, bounded by the San Leandro Creek on the north, Watkins Street on the east, Castro Street on the south, and on the west by the longitude lying a block west of Alvarado Street.<ref name="kyle">{{cite book |title=Historic Spots in California |page=14 |first=Douglas E. |last=Kyle |author2=Hoover, Mildred Brooke |publisher=Stanford University Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-8047-4483-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYMPR6xAj50C&q=jose+joaquin+estudillo&pg=PA14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~21427~630041:San-Leandro,-Cal-?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No&qvq=w4s:/when%2F1878;q:San%2BLeandro;sort:Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=4&trs=5 |title=San Leandro, Cal. - David Rumsey Historical Map Collection}}</ref> The city has a historical [[Portuguese American]] population dating from the 1880s, when [[Portuguese immigration to Hawaii|Portuguese laborers from Hawaii]] or from the [[Azores]] began settling in the city and established farms and businesses. By the 1910 census, they had accounted for nearly two-thirds of San Leandro's population.<ref name="rogers">{{cite book |title=The Portuguese in San Leandro |first=Meg |last=Rogers |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-7385-5833-2 |url=http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=VPROD&Product_Code=9780738558332}}</ref>