Roofer in Dublin, Alameda, County

In 1835, José María Amador was granted 16,500 acres for his service as a Mexican soldier and in Mission San Jose where he was an administrator in the valley which was named Amador Valley after him. In 1850, Irish settlers bought land from Amador and founded a town.

Several historical sites are preserved and located where Dublin Boulevard is crossed by Donlan Way, itself formerly the northernmost segment of the main road to Sunol and Niles Canyon (present-day Foothill Road):

• The Murray Schoolhouse (established in 1856 with 50 pupils)
• Green’s Store (opened in 1860) current home of the Dublin Church of Christ.
• The old cemetery was formally established in 1859, although people had been buried in the churchyard for years before 1859.
• Old St. Raymond’s Church (built 1859), is listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Dublin Boulevard, a generally east-west road running just north of Interstate 580, was a part of the Lincoln Highway and later U.S. Route 50. The street formerly curved southward near today’s Hansen Drive to follow present-day Dublin Canyon Road toward Hayward.