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If anyone wishes to offer additional information, vignettes, or interesting details to this history, please call or e-mail Peter Stauffer at <pstauffer@usgs.gov>. Peter Stauffer's office mailing address is: USGS, 345 Middlefield Road, MS-951, Menlo Park CA 94025-3591.

A Brief History of the Land of the USGS Menlo Campus

by Mark V. Bonito, USGS

INDEX

• Overview
  
• The Native Land
  
• Spanish Colonialism
  
• Los Rancheros
  
• The U.S. Conquest
  
• Birth of the Department Of the Interior Geological Survey
  
• Town of Mayfield, the Railroad, and the Two Palo Altos
  
• What Tree Was The Tall Tree?
  
• The Birth of Menlough (Park)
  
• A Senator's Personal Kingdom
  
• The Gift To the Adopted Son
  
• The Lost Mansion
  
• War Department Affect
  
• The USGS Pacific Coast Center
  
• Redevelopment Of Government Buildings And Surroundings
  
• Epilogue
  
• References for this history

U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
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