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      • Hillsborough County was created on January 25, 1834, from Alachua and Monroe Counties, during the U.S. territorial period (1822–1845).
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  2. Hillsborough was incorporated on May 5, 1910. Between 1910 and 1938, Hillsborough’s population grew from an estimated 750 to over 2,500, but the era of large estates came a close. Uplands, Home Place, La Dolphine, and other classic estates were gradually subdivided into smaller lots, usually leaving the original house and several acres intact.

  3. Hillsborough was originally part of Rancho San Mateo, granted to Californio ranchero Cayetano Arenas in 1846. Hillsborough is located on the Rancho San Mateo Mexican land grant which was purchased by William Davis Merry Howard, son of a wealthy Hillsborough, New Hampshire, shipping magnate, in 1846. Howard settled his family in this area, which ...

  4. Chapter XII - Hillsborough. District No. 5. This is the central district of Mabou. The name was first given to a pretty hamlet, built upon a hill, three miles Southeast of Mabou Village. When the County was incorporated in 1879, this name was applied and extended to the whole of District No. 5, and the name is quite appropriate.

  5. In 1910, after resisting annexation pressures from neighboring San Mateo and Burlingame, they officially incorporated as the Town of Hillsborough. The result is one iconic community representing Then, Here, and Now: layered with its share of mystique, but still a beacon for those ready to make their mark on a revered heritage.

  6. The Acadian people, who established the first continuous European Settlement in North America in 1604, moved to this side of the Bay of Fundy and established Ville Blanchard in 1700, which is now Hillsborough.

  7. This business block was constructed in 1907 by Jordan Steeves, a prominent businessman and politician in Hillsborough, and has served the Hillsborough retail landscape ever since.

  8. Hillsborough County was created on January 25, 1834, from Alachua and Monroe Counties, [6] during the U.S. territorial period (1822–1845). The new county was named for Wills Hill, the Earl of Hillsborough, who served as British Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1768 to 1772. [7]

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