Two roads that crossed Dublin made for a thriving little town in the 1860s. The stagecoaches that took the east-west route - today Interstate 580 - and the north-south road, San Ramon Road, made this the place for settlers eager to farm.

Restaurants, hotels and a general store were busy locales. But the bustling community was short-lived. When the valley’s railroad lines were completed in 1869, business shifted from the Dublin stagecoach stops to the locomotive stops in Livermore and Pleasanton.

The Dublin area was first mentioned by explorers in 1772. Father Juan Crespi included it in his writings during an expedition led by Pedro Fages, who was searching for a land route to Drake’s Bay from San Jose.

He wrote that the valley was a good place for a mission with good land, plenty of water and firewood for local Indians. In 1824, Jose Maria Amador, a former Mexican soldier, was given a land grant and built the first of many adobe houses. Dublin’s Irish roots date back to 1852, when Michael Murray and Jeremiah Fallon came to town from Ireland and staked a homestead on 1,000 acres.

The city, which uses a clover leaf as its symbol and is known for its annual St. Patrick’s Day festivals, has a 53,000-square-foot civic center and police station complete with waterfalls and sculptures. A BART station at Interstate 580 in east Dublin was complete in May 1997.

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http://www.ci.dublin.ca.us/DepartmentSubLevel2.cfm?PL=exp

http://www.ci.dublin.ca.us/DepartmentSub.cfm?PL=exp
[Waste Management & Recycling]
http://www.ci.dublin.ca.us/DepartmentSubLevel2.cfm?PL=exp
[Oil Recycling]

http://www.lavta.org/
[Livermore Amador Valley Transit Authority]

http://www.stmarys-ca.edu/
[Saint Mary's College]
http://www.berkeley.edu/

http://www.csuhayward.edu/

http://www.clpccd.cc.ca.us/lpc/
[Las Positas College]