Union City is part of Barbary Coast
Posted on June 8, 2006 - Filed Under Punch Forum |
Ramon Dimagiba
Burr Ridge, IL
ramondimagiba@yahoo.com
8 June 2006
Barbary Coast or Barbary as described was the coastal regions of what are now Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya.
In the West, it evoked the Arab slave traders that prowled that northern part of Africa. Because, of the notoriety that influenced the city, it was called the Barbary Coast of the west.
Union City is located in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area of northern California.
Situated 30 miles SE of Frisco and 20 miles north of San Jose. It is 18 sq. miles in size. It was incorporated as a city on January 30, 1959. It is a city council/city manager form of government.
On January 30, 1847, San Francisco got its official name as it is from Yerba Buena which was the name it was called. The name Francisco was derived from the English navigator Francis Drake which landed first in that part of America in 1579 before the Spanish. Drake called that new discovery Nueva Albion which means new earth.
All the land in that Bay Area before the inception of California into the Union in 1850, was called the Barbary Coast.
Union City then was never been planned and mostly inhabited by the native Americans mostly the Ohlones Indians.
To say, that Union City is not a part of the Barbary Coast, as it was known then, it is wishful thinking.
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