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Millbrae and used
It is used by the Richmond – Millbrae line, the Pittsburg / Bay Point – SFO line, the Fremont – Daly City line, and the Dublin / Pleasanton – Daly City line.
The side platform is used primarily by southbound trains continuing on to Colma and Millbrae.

Millbrae and private
Millbrae has one private school at Saint Dunstan's, a Catholic church.

Millbrae and by
Most of the Peninsula is occupied by San Mateo County, between San Francisco and Santa Clara counties, and including the cities and towns of Atherton, Belmont, Brisbane, Burlingame, Colma, Daly City, East Palo Alto, El Granada, Foster City, Hillsborough, La Honda, Menlo Park, Millbrae, Montara, Pacifica, Pescadero, Portola Valley, Redwood City, San Bruno, San Carlos, San Gregorio, San Mateo, South San Francisco, and Woodside.
The former Mills estate was bordered by what is now Skyline Boulevard, Bayshore Highway U. S. Route 101, Millbrae Avenue and Trousdale Drive.
The rest stop was built in 1872 by members of the Sanchez family, the original landholders of the Rancho Buri Buri, which at one time comprised parts of present-day Millbrae and Burlingame.
Spurred largely by the desire to secure the Mills ' estate for residential use and by the efforts of Millbrae's weekly newspaper, the Millbrae Sun, residents heatedly discussed incorporation for over a decade before voting to incorporate.
In the 1950s, Millbrae residents united to resist efforts to divide the city by the planned Junipero Serra Freeway ( I-280 ), which was later routed parallel to Junipero Serra Boulevard, then through a canyon in San Bruno up to Skyline Boulevard.
Millbrae is also the home of Green Hills Country Club which was designed by famed golf course architect Dr. Alister MacKenzie ( who designed other noteworthy courses such as Augusta National, Cypress Point, Royal Melbourne, Pasatiempo, and many more ).
In the state legislature Millbrae is located in the 8th Senate District, represented by Democrat Leland Yee, and in the 19th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Jerry Hill.
Federally, Millbrae is located in California's 12th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D + 22 and is currently held by Jackie Speier, who won in a special election to fill the vacancy left by Tom Lantos upon his death.
Although surrounded by land that is part of Millbrae, nearby Capuchino High School is located in San Bruno.
Terraced houses on Millbrae Crescent in Langside, c. 1870Grave monuments designed by Thomson that are worthy of study include those to the Revd.
Route 82, referred to by local residents almost always as " El Camino ," runs through a number of cities on the Peninsula, including Palo Alto ( passing by Stanford University ), San Carlos, San Mateo, Burlingame, and Millbrae, and it is a central artery of the Peninsula communities through which it passes.
In 1958 Taylor and his wife, Dora, moved to Millbrae, California, and began making hairpieces by hand based on a hairpiece Taylor made for himself in the early 1940s.
On January 1, 2008, this line became identified on maps as the Richmond – Millbrae Line, which includes service to / from all the stations between Daly City and Millbrae ( with the exception of the San Francisco International Airport which is served by the Pittsburg Bay Point Line during all periods of operations ) on weekdays only.
In 1918 the constituency consisted of " That portion of the city which is bounded by a line commencing at a point on the municipal boundary at the centre of Kilmarnock Road, thence northward along the centre line of Kilmarnock Road to the centre line of the River Cart, thence south-eastward and eastward along the centre line of the River Cart to the centre line of Langside Road at Millbrae Bridge, thence north-eastward along the centre line of Langside Road, Millbrae Road and Langside Road, to the centre line of the main avenue in the Queen's Park near Victoria Infirmary, thence northward along the centre line of the said main avenue to the centre line of Queen's Drive, thence northward along the centre line of Victoria Road to the centre line of the Glasgow and South Western Railway about 46 yards north of the centre line of Butterbiggins Road, thence north-eastward along the centre line of the said Glasgow and South Western Railway to the centre line of the Caledonian Railway Main Line from Glasgow to Rutherglen, thence south-eastward along the centre line of the said Caledonian Railway to the municipal boundary, thence south-westward and westward along the municipal boundary to the point of commencement "
From 1918 the constituency consisted of " That portion of the city which is bounded by a line commencing at a point on the municipal boundary at the centre line of the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway, thence eastward along the centre line of the said Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway and the Caledonian Railway to the centre line of Shields Road, thence southward along the centre line of Shields Road to the centre line of the Glasgow and South Western Railway ( Paisley Canal Line ), thence, eastward along the centre line of the said Glasgow and South Western Railway to the centre line of Eglinton Street, thence southward along the centre line of Eglinton Street and Victoria Road to the centre line of Queen's Drive, thence southward along the centre line of the main avenue in the Queen's Park to the centre line of Langside Road, thence south-westward along the centre line of Langside Road to the centre line of Millbrae Road, thence south-westward along the centre line of Millbrae Road and Langside Road to the centre line of the River Cart at Millbrae Bridge, thence westward and north-westward along the centre line of the River Cart to the centre line of Kilmarnock Road, thence southward along the centre line of Kilmarnock Road to the municipal boundary, thence northwestward, south-westward, northward, westward and northward along the municipal boundary to the point of commencement.

Millbrae and from
The estate became known as " Millbrae " from " Mills " and the Scottish word " brae ," which means " rolling hills.
The racial makeup of Millbrae was 10, 177 ( 47. 3 %) White, 179 ( 0. 8 %) African American, 33 ( 0. 2 %) Native American, 9, 205 ( 42. 8 %) Asian, 214 ( 1. 0 %) Pacific Islander, 776 ( 3. 6 %) from other races, and 948 ( 4. 4 %) from two or more races.
Mills High School is situated about a block away from the southern border of Millbrae with Burlingame.
Graduated from Mills High School, Millbrae, California, in 1962 ; received a bachelor of science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1966 ; and a master of science degree in Hydraulic engineering and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Hydraulic Engineering from Colorado State University in 1968 and 1976, respectively.
The Richmond – Daly City / Millbrae line of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system in the San Francisco Bay Area consists of 23 metro stations from Richmond to Millbrae.
The original service plan for this line was for trains to go straight from San Bruno to Millbrae, travel to the airport, and then go back towards San Francisco.
This was changed a few months later to allow trains both coming and going from Millbrae to stop at the airport.
The Pittsburg / Bay Point – SFO / Millbrae line of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system in the San Francisco Bay Area consists of 26 metro stations from Pittsburg / Bay Point to San Francisco International Airport and Millbrae.
On September 14, 2009, the Pittsburg / Bay Point Line became reidentified on maps as the Pittsburg / Bay Point – SFO / Millbrae Line, as service to / from the stations between Daly City and SFO was reinstated during all of BART's operating hours, with additional service to Millbrae station on weekdays after 7pm and all day on weekends and holidays.
This station is still the transfer point for Fremont passengers bounding to and from SFO / Millbrae at nights and on weekends.
Passengers from Millbrae bound for Fremont transfer trains at 12th Street and passengers from the Fremont line transfer the Pittsburg / Bay Point line at 12th Street on nights and weekends.

Millbrae and residents
For many Millbrae residents, the original Sixteen Mile House was a direct link to Millbrae's early days.
Finally, on January 14, 1948, residents of Millbrae traveled to Sacramento to present their new city's charter.
Today, Millbrae boasts over 21, 000 residents.

Millbrae and until
Records of the Internal Revenue Service document the licensing of several Millbrae bars for gambling ; only after incorporation were gambling laws enforced in Millbrae and not until the 1950s was gambling defeated.

Millbrae and San
Rancho Buri Buri was granted to Jose Sanchez in 1835 and covered including parts of modern day Colma, Burlingame, San Bruno, South San Francisco, and Millbrae.
The line was extended south to Colma in 1996 and then to Millbrae and the San Francisco International Airport in 2003.
Millbrae is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States, just west of San Francisco Bay, with San Bruno on the north and Burlingame on the south.
The course was originally known as the Union League Golf Club of San Francisco ( 1930 to 1933 ) and Millbrae Country Club ( 1933 to 1945 ).
From the turn of the century, the # 40 " interurban " streetcar traveled through Millbrae, linking the city with San Francisco and San Mateo.
Millbrae has a reputation for having some of the best schools in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Millbrae has one public high school, Mills High School, which is part of the San Mateo Union High School District.
The Millbrae Fire Department has administratively merged with the San Bruno Fire Department as of 2008.
Millbrae is located between San Francisco and San Jose.

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