![]() ![]() ![]() The village's residents did not care for the name and changed it to El Cerrito (meaning "little hill" or " knoll") in 1916, in reference to the many individual hills in the village. A post office opened at the settlement in 1909 and the refugee camp became known as Rust, after Wilhelm F. ![]() They settled in what was then Don Víctor Castro's Rancho San Pablo, and adjacent to the ranch owned by the family of Luís María Peralta, the Rancho San Antonio. Don Víctor Castro, a Californio ranchero who helped found El Cerrito on his Rancho El Sobrante.Įl Cerrito was founded by refugees from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. ![]()
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