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Daly City

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Daly City, city, San Mateo county, California, U.S. Daly City is adjacent to San Francisco, between the San Bruno Mountains and the Pacific Ocean on the San Francisco peninsula. First inhabited by Ohlone Indians, the site became a Spanish land grant (largely uninhabited) in the 18th century. Later a farming community known as Vista Grande, it resisted development until 1906, when an earthquake and subsequent fire drove people from San Francisco. After the quake John...

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