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Pittsburg has been a city in progress
for nearly a century and a half. Located at the point where the
Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers meet, Pittsburg is a City of both
progress and promise. The earliest recorded history of our town starts
in the year 1839 when the Mexican government granted almost 10,000 acres
to Jose Antone Mesa and Miguel Jose Garcia. Shortly thereafter the
little town was named New York of the Pacific, possibly because the man
who laid out the town, Colonel J.D. Stevenson, was a native of New York.
This area soon became known as New York Landing and thrived on fishing
and canning industries. Following the discovery of coal in the hills
three miles south of town, the town was renamed Black Diamond in 1903.
In 1906 Columbia Geneva Steel opened for business,
and by popular vote on February 11, 1911, the name was changed to
Pittsburg, after the eastern birthplace of the steel industry but
without the "H" for simplified spelling.
In 1942 Camp Stoneman was built. This was to have
a terrific impact on the City and its growth. For thousands of GIs who
went to fight in the Asiatic-Pacific operations during World War II,
Camp Stoneman was the last contact with the United States. In 1954, the
Camp was closed and the property was added to the City of Pittsburg for
commercial and residential development.
From a struggling settlement to an industrial
center, Pittsburg has grown into a pleasant community of landscaped
parks, recreational facilities, shopping centers, affordable housing and
planned business and commercial development.
Pittsburg is striding into the future, each day
more prosperous than the one before. New homes, renovated older homes,
new businesses, a historic district being revived are all signs of even
better times to come. Additionally, Pittsburg's local government has
expanded the parks system, improved the roads, increased commerce and
employment, expanded the Marina and built a modern Civic Center to take
it into the 21st century. All of this at no additional cost to the
taxpayer. Working together, the progress will continue.
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