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Redwood City is a city in San Mateo County, California, near San Francisco and Silicon Valley. It has a history of lumber, chrysanthemums, and technology, and is the county seat and home to Oracle and Electronic Arts.
Redwood Shores is a waterfront community in Redwood City, California, along the western shore of San Francisco Bay. It is home to several major technology companies, such as Oracle, Electronic Arts, and Nintendo, and has a mild climate and a branch library.
Learn about the history, ecology, and conservation of the Redwood National and State Parks, a complex of four parks in northern California that preserve 45 percent of all remaining old-growth coast redwood forests. The parks were established in 1968 and 1994, and are a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
According to the National Park Service, "In 1929, Clara W. Stout, widow of lumberman Frank D. Stout, donated this tract of old-growth redwood forest to Save the Redwoods League."
San Mateo County is a county in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a population of 764,442 and a median household income of $128,091. It was formed in 1856 from the division of San Francisco County and has Redwood City as its county seat.
Pulgas Water Temple is a stone structure in Redwood City, California, built by the San Francisco Water Department in 1938 to celebrate the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct. It was originally designed to have water flowing through it, but now it is a historical landmark and a tourist attraction.