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Years
1905
The "Big Four" graft prosecutors (left to right) Frances J. Heney, William J. Burns, Fremont Older and Rudolph Spreckels.
Original Bank of Pinole building
Graft trials begin in San Francisco
against mayor
Eugene Schmitz
, members of the
San Francisco Board of Supervisors
, and attorney and political boss
Abe Ruef
, who were receiving bribes, and business owners who were paying the bribes.
(prosecutors pictured)
Concord
and
Richmond
are incorporated in
Contra Costa County
The
Bank of Pinole
(pictured)
is founded in
Richmond
The
Hill Opera House
opens in
Petaluma
The
Bancroft Library
at the
University of California, Berkeley
is founded when the university purchases
Hubert Howe Bancroft
's 50,000 volumes on the
history of California
and the North American West
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