El Cerrito travel guide

El Cerrito (formerly Rust) is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States. The population was 23,171 at the 2000 census. El Cerrito was founded by refugees from the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. They settled in a village in what was then Don Victór Castro's Rancho San Pablo. The settlers called their refugee camp Rust which later turned into a village. In 1917 it was eventually incorporated and named after founded by and named after Wilhelm F. Rust (a German immigrant) with 1,500 residents. Rust residents did not care for the name and later changed it to El Cerrito. (...) more....

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