{"id":596,"date":"2026-06-09T13:30:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sacramentomovinghub.com\/?p=596"},"modified":"2026-06-09T13:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:30:33","slug":"at-250-americas-story-includes-california-long-before-it-was-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sacramentomovinghub.com\/?p=596","title":{"rendered":"At 250, America\u2019s Story Includes California Long Before It Was American"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><p><em>This story was reported for K Onda KQED, a monthly newsletter focused on the Bay Area\u2019s Latinx community. Click here to subscribe<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I have a hard time imagining San Francisco when it was founded 250 years ago. Few people inhabited the hilly, foggy landscape. Mission Dolores, officially Misi\u00f3n San Francisco de As\u00eds, was a small chapel made of adobe \u2014 the only original intact building from that time.<\/p>\n<p>Construction on the Presidio was just beginning. Most of the inhabitants were Indigenous people and some Spanish families who came this far north in Alta California because they had few options elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/sacramentomovinghub.com\/?p=593\">LA Mayor Race: Raman Passes Pratt in Quest for Second-Place Slot<\/a><\/p>\n<p>San Francisco was more of an undesirable, remote village than the bewitching metropolis it is now.<\/p>\n<p>As our nation nears what\u2019s being called our 250th birthday \u2014 the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence \u2014 I\u2019ve been thinking about what it means to be a citizen of this nation now in the Bay Area, which was not even part of the United States in 1776. At the time, California was part of the Spanish colony that would later become Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/sacramentomovinghub.com\/?p=591\">San Francisco Takes Anti-Abortion Activist Back to Court After Meme Mistrial<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/sacramentomovinghub.com\/?p=594\">White House Opens Probe Into San Francisco Schools Over Gender Ideology<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Indigenous and Mexican roots to modern immigration debates, California\u2019s past offers a broader understanding of American identity and citizenship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-k-onda-kqed"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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