About Pinole, CA

Pinole is one of the cities in Contra Costa Located in California USA and the name Pinole was originated from a flower name made from seeds of chia, maize and several other annual and grasses herbs, a Native American word. According to the 2010 census, they have approximately 18,390 population. A voyage which has run out of provisions while exploring the area by Pedro Fages had been supplied by Pinole by the local citizen as well as the Spaniards called their camp El Pinole.

Native People of America who lived in West Contra Costa strand started at somewhat 5,000 years ago. The region of Pinole was known as the Huchiun Indians territory which expanded from Berkeley to somewhere around Crockett and Rodeo.

The ancient history of Pinole from decades ago was known to be started in the mid-1700’s when one of the Spanish commandant led an expedition through Contra Costa. With just a few Indian guide as well as small bands of the army, he traveled northward and left Monterey until he reached the land of Pinole. When the soldiers ran out of food on their march they found a village of Indians who offered them food, according to the history. The food is made up of a form of meal, consisting seeds, acorns, four of Pinole (from the Aztec word Pģinoli that means toasted seeds or grain) and lastly wild grain, reason why the soldiers called their camp El Pinole, that’s the history where Pinole received its name.

From the year 1823, the commandant of the Presidio of San Francisco named Don Ignacio Martinez received a land grant from the Mexican government. The land area grant was known as El Pinole and known to have an area over 17,000 acres. In the year 1824, Don Ignacio Martinez established his first adobe hacienda in Pinole Vallet around 2miles from San Pablo Bay on what on present day we called Pinole Park.

In the mid 1850’s someone named Bernardo Fernandez began a trading facility at the bay and established the earliest historic Fernandez Mansion. The mansion still exists in the present located at the end of Tennent Avenue. A few numbers of people grew and thriving in the city of Pinole from these early beginnings. Several structures from the earliest still stand as reminders of the colorful and happy past of Pinole.

One of the ancient Anglo American colonists located in Contra Costa County was named Dr. Samuel J. Tennent married to Rafaela (daughter of Ignacio Martine’s. The Tenets established their home in the year 1851 for about haft a mile from the Valley Road (Pinole Valley Road in the present) from the Tennent Ave. Creek Bridge of lumber that was shipped from Maine. Tennent with his wife Rafaela is the owner of most of the acreage in the area. In advantage through the wharf area of the Southern Pacific Railroad in the year 1878, the way was opened for all the California Powder Works to move into the adjacent waterfront what they called Hercules.

Both plants as well as its houses were established by the company and became the largest dynamite production throughout the world few decades later. Lit manufactured lots of TNT than any other plant during the World War in the country. The service center of the plant is the town of Pinole and the progress of the plant because the reason for a direct relationship with the Pinole developer. The company established 20 homes for their worker and was relocated and rehabilitated to an historic district land area adjacent to the Pinole City limits. In the year 1905, the first Bank of Pinole was established by E.M. Downer Sr and based in San Pablo Avenue in the George Fraser building between Fernandez Avenues and Tenent.