For Our Original 27, 165 Years and Counting!
Vallejo is a name well known in Northern California. We have the City of Vallejo in Solano County which unfortunately hit the news for a lot of wrong reasons a few years back. We have Vallejo’s Mexican Restaurant, a favorite lunch spot for the Capitol Crowd here in Sacramento. And we have General Mariano Vallejo, who chaired California’s first constitutional convention in 1849-50.
A lot happened at that convention, including the creation of California’s original 27 counties: Branciforte (now Santa Cruz), Butte, Calaveras, Colusi (now Colusa), Contra Costa, El Dorado, Los Angeles, Marin, Mariposa, Mendocino, Monterey, Napa, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma, Sutter, Trinity, Tuolumne, Yola (now Yolo), and Yuba.