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<p><big> Rancho Las Positas </big></p>
<p>Robert Livermore (1799-1858), the city's namesake, was a British merchant sailor who came ashore at <a href="page.php?w=Monterey%2C_California">Monterey</a> and later settled in California. In 1839, the 48000 acre <a href="page.php?w=Rancho_Las_Positas">Rancho Las Positas</a> grant, which included much of present-day Livermore, was made to Livermore and <a href="page.php?w=Jose_Noriega">Jose Noriega</a>. In the early 1840s,</p><p>
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