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IN THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OF
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
In the Matter of
Commemorating the 200th )
Anniversary of the Settlement )
of California by Designating } RESOLUTION NO. 70/352
Highway 21 as E1 Camino Viejo }
for the Duration of the
Bicentennial Trail Ride. )
WHEREAS Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 54 was
adopted by the California Assembly on March ll, 1969 and by
the California Senate on March 19, 1969, and
WHEREAS said Resolution memorialized the start of the
modern history of California in 1769 and noted that Don Gaspar
do Portola led an expedition in search of Monterey Bay in that
year and blazed the beginning of El Camino Viejo, which started
at the San Antonia Rancho at Oakland and the San Ramon Rancho
near Walnut Creek, and terminated at San Pedro, serving for more
than 100 years as the principal artery of travel between the Bag
Area ,and tidewater Los Angeles , and
WHEREAS the Assembly, with Senate eoneurrence, urged
the various counties and communities along the historic route
to mark its identity as El. Camino Viejo with signs, roadside
rests, and hiking, bicycling and riding trails, and
WHEREAS a major official function approved by the
California Bicentennial Celebration Commission will be the nine-
day trail ride over the El Camino Viejo from San Pedro terminating
In dedicatory ceremonies at Walnut Creek on July 4 with upward of
400 horsemen riding over the Contra Costa extension of the El
Camino Viejo from they County Line to Walnut Creek, and
WHEREAS the official Contra Costa committees planning
this ambitious observance, representing the Horsemen's Associations#
they City of Walnut Creek, the Walnut Creek Chamber of Commerce, the
Contra Costa Bicentennial Committee, the Contra Costa Historical
Society, and the Contra Costa County Development Association and
other 'groups,_ has urged that the route of the bicentennial ride
in Contra Costa County be designated as the El Camino Viejo,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of
Supervisors of ,Contra Costa County does hereby commemorate the
200th anniversary of the settlement of California by designating
Highway 21 between Walnut Creek and the County Line at Dublin as
El Camino Viejo for the duration: of the nine-day bicentennial
trail ride which will terminate at Walnut Creek on July 4, 1970.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 16th day of June, 1970, by the
following vote of the Board:
AYES: J. P. Kenny, A. M. Dias, J. E. Moriarty,,
E. A. Linseheid, T. J. Coll,
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None•