Alisal, Pleasanton, California

Note that even though the database and plaque use the word "sycamore", the English translation of the Spanish "aliso" is "alder".

Alisal, nicknamed "The Most Desperate Town in the West",[2] was one of the settlements located along the trail called La Vereda del Monte that was a haunt and refuge of bandits and desperados in the era following the beginning of the California Gold Rush.

Banditos such as Claudio Feliz and Joaquin Murrieta would ambush prospectors on their way back from the gold fields and then seek refuge in Alisal.

[3] During the period of the railroad boom in the late 1860s, Rancho Santa Rita was sub divided.

Neal each laid out and plotted a subdivision for a new town called Alisal, situated about five miles south of Dublin.