If not for defiant land squatters, Redwood City may have been forever known as 'Mezesville'

After evicting squatters from Peninsula rancho land in the 1800s, developer Simon Monserrate Mezes decided to create a town called "Mezesville" and charge people to come back and live there. The ousted settlers had a different idea.

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