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Continuing-Care Communities (CCRC)
Northern California
Area Info
Northern California is a land of dramatic contrasts: soaring skyscrapers and towering redwoods, bustling cities and pathless wilderness, pounding surf and glittering snowcapped peaks. Vintners practice their centuries-old craft in some of the greatest wine-producing areas of North America, while nearby entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley reinvent the world of computers on almost a daily basis. Northern California is home to California's capital (Sacramento), its third-largest city (San Jose), the second-highest mountain of the Cascade Range (Mt. Shasta), the third-most visited national park (Yosemite). It is a land of superlatives.
The area has been popular for a long time. The first pre-Columbian settlers arrived here as long ago as 8,000 BC, and quickly made the area one of the most densely populated in North America. Europeans didn't settle here, however, until 1770, when the mission of Monterey was founded. But with the discovery of gold near Sacramento in 1848, northern California became a magnet for settlers. The area experienced a 300% increase in population during the Gold Rush years; and while the pace slowed considerably in later years, by the turn of the century over a million people lived in the region.
Today, more 12 million live in the northern California region. Yet outside of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento areas, northern California has a low population density: of the fifteen counties at the bottom of California's population figures, only one of them is outside this region.
Articles
News from the San Francisco Chronicle
Sep 5, 2010 7:00 am
There's nothing inherently San Franciscan about buildings skinned in thin slats of dark wood; the Shingle Style of architecture migrated west from New England in the 1880s. But it's a surface treatmen...
Sep 5, 2010 7:00 am
Monday Federal, state courts and offices ClosedCity and county offices ClosedBanks, savings institutions ClosedPost offices ClosedSchools ClosedPublic transit-- BART, MuniSunday schedule-- Golden Gate...
Sep 5, 2010 7:00 am
259 Projected number of 2010 sales in Outer Sunset. If projections hold, that's a 55 percent drop since a 10-year high (572) in 2002. Source:... Outer Banks - North Carolina - United...
Court won't force state to defend Prop. 8
Sep 3, 2010 7:00 am
The outlook for the legal defense of Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage, grew cloudier Thursday as a state appellate court refused to order Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney Ge...
Pacheco Pass high-speed rail route wins again
Sep 3, 2010 7:00 am
For the third time in as many years, the High-Speed Rail Authority on Thursday chose the Pacheco Pass to speed trains between the Bay Area and Central Valley. Despite pleas from those who favor an ali...
Alameda fire chief put on administrative leave
Sep 3, 2010 7:00 am
David Kapler, Alameda's $195,702-a-year fire chief who had been filling up his BMW convertible on the city's dime, was placed on paid administrative leave Thursday. Kapler, who has a $250-a-month car ...
Leaving water in desert not litter, court says
Sep 3, 2010 7:00 am
A federal appeals court overturned the conviction Thursday of a volunteer who left water bottles in the Arizona desert for parched border-crossers and was arrested violating a law that forbids "l...
Aug 26, 2009 7:00 am
Oakland: Jackson Street gets patched up a bit
Aug 26, 2009 7:00 am
What's working better: Four months ago, Chronicle Watch reported on Oakland's Jackson Street between Seventh and 10th streets. It was a stretch of pavement so strewn with crevices that Chronicle Watch...
Featured Communities
Cardinal Point at Mariner Square
Cardinal Point, a Continuing Care Retirement Community, is located at Mariner Square in Alameda, California, across the estuary from Jack London Square. This beautiful three-story building offers services, including Alzheimers care, hospice, and i...
Centrally located between San Francisco and Palo Alto, minutes from the airport, The Stratford is ideally situated in San Mateo, California. The ten-story structure offers spectacular views of the Bay and foothills, with 16 verdant acres of park a...
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