The way of life changed during the 18th century when the Spanish arrived on the San Mateo coast, in the search for Monterey Bay, the Spanish started the Portola expedition where they had spent two days resting near what is now the town of Half Moon Bay.

The 2010 United States Census reported that Portola had a population of 2, 104.

Her funeral was held on the morning of August 13, 1969, at Our Lady of the Wayside Church in Portola Valley, a church that had been built by her grandparents, the Mejias, in 1912.

WP had yards in Stockton, Milpitas, Oroville, Portola, Elko, Oakland, Keddie, Winnemucca, and Salt Lake City.

This highway was previously named the Portola Freeway to honor the eighteenth century Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portolà, whose expedition in 1769-70 discovered the San Francisco Bay, from a viewpoint on the Sweeney Ridge located between San Bruno and Pacifica.

Don José de Cañizares — diarist on the 1769 overland Portola expedition and who sailed with Don Juan Manuel de Ayala on the San Carlos, the first ship to enter San Francisco Bay on August 5, 1775 — named the cove north and west of Benicia Puerto de las Asunta ( Asumption Harbor in Spanish ) because he discovered it on that feast day in 1775.

In October 1769 the Portola expedition ' discovered ' the redwoods of southern Santa Cruz County, and camped at the mouth of Waddell Creek, in present-day Big Basin, later that month.

: Under this giant redwood, the Palo Alto, November 6 – 11, 1769, camped Portola and his band on the expedition that discovered San Francisco Bay, this was the assembling point for their reconnoitering parties.

Portola Hills is located at ( 33. 683672 ,-117. 632872 ).

Built in the mid-1990s, Portola Hills Elementary was subject to litigation between the SVUSD school district and the developer concerning land movement at the school site.

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* Western Pacific Railroad Museum at Portola

John Fogerty, Doug Clifford, and Stu Cook ( all born 1945 ) met at Portola Junior High School in El Cerrito, California and began playing instrumentals and " juke box standards " together under the name The Blue Velvets.

There do exist several small and isolated stands of old-growth forest, most notably at Henry Cowell Redwoods and Portola Redwoods State Parks and one sizeable old-growth redwood forest at Big Basin.

One of these cars is now preserved at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum at Portola, California.

Several railroad museums roster large numbers of cabooses, including the Illinois Railway Museum with 19 examples and the Western Pacific Railroad Museum at Portola, California, with 17.

* One tank is displayed at the Military Vehicles Technology Foundation, Portola, USA.

Thirteen-year-old Tracy Freeland ( Evan Rachel Wood ) writes poetry and is an honor student at Portola Middle School in Los Angeles.

The many outdoor school scenes were shot at Portola Middle School in Tarzana, most of them on a single Saturday in searing heat.

Highway 24 split from 89 near Graeagle, and continued east through Portola east until its terminus at U. S. Route 395.

A third U25B locomotive is on display at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola CA.

Southern Pacific rotary snowplow MW208 is preserved in operational condition at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum at Portola, California.

Three cranes of various sizes are preserved at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum at Portola, California.

The Western Pacific Railroad Museum at Portola, California features several Budd-built cars from the California Zephyr, including dome lounge car " Silver Hostel " and diner " Silver Plate ", as well as a Southern Pacific Budd sleeping car.

It follows Portola between the Diamond Heights neighborhood and Twin Peaks, turns onto Woodside and then Laguna Honda Boulevard, where it loops around at Forest Hill Station.

The Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve is a 1, 200 acre ( 5 km² ) is a nature preserve and biological field station owned by Stanford University, located at south of Sand Hill Road and west of Interstate 280 in Portola Valley, California.

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 only incorporated city in the county is Portola, several other populated places are CDPs.

Nervino field is in Beckwourth, east of Portola.

In the state legislature Portola Hills is located in the 33rd Senate District, represented by Republican Dick Ackerman, and in the 70th Assembly District, represented by Republican Chuck DeVore.

Federally, Portola Hills is located in California's 48th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of R + 8 and is represented by Republican John Campbell.

Portola II is located in the heart of Portola Hills, while Portola I is on the far north side.

Portola Hills is also home to Concourse Park, located adjacent to Portola Hills I.

The primary local news source is the Portola Reporter, a newspaper published every Wednesday.

Portola is the only incorporated city in Plumas County, California, United States.

Portola is located on the Middle Fork of the Feather River, and was named after Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portolà, though he never explored the surrounding area.

Portola is a crew change site on the Western Pacific Railroad ( now Union Pacific Railroad ) Feather River Route over the Sierra Nevada mountains.

The city is also home to the Western Pacific Railroad Museum ( formerly Portola Railroad Museum ), one of the largest railroad museums in the Western US.

In the state legislature Portola is located in the 1st Senate District, represented by Republican Ted Gaines, and in the 3rd Assembly District, represented by Republican Dan Logue.

Federally, Portola is located in California's 4th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of R + 11 and is represented by Republican Tom McClintock.

As of mid-2008, the developer ( USA Portola Center, LLC ) entered into a School Facilities Funding and Mitigation Agreement with the school district for development originally known as " Portola Hills South " and now known as " Portola Center.

It is said that Portola used the same route Portola Parkway now runs across.

MathWorks was founded in Portola Valley, California, by Jack Little ( President & CEO ), Cleve Moler ( Chief Scientist ), and Steve Bangert ( now inactive ) on December 7, 1984.