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Tice Creek
Tice Creek is a minor creek in Contra Costa County, California in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is approximately long. It is a tributary of Las Trampas Creek, which itself is a major tributary to Walnut Creek which in turn drains into Suisun Bay. The name comes from the surname of a settler family who settled in the Tice valley. Course Tice Creek begins as a two small and intermittent streams emitting from a number of springs that surface in the hills above the senior-living community at Rossmoor, Walnut Creek, California. As a result of suburban development, many of the creek's tributaries are confined to concrete channels or culverts, which seek to reduce the impact of flooding. Tice Creek runs northward through the Rossmoor golf course where its channel has been heavily modified and in some places runs over concrete. After exiting Rossmoor, Tice Creek makes an abrupt turn to the east, where it joins with Las Trampas Creek shortly above its confluence with San Ramon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rossmoor, Walnut Creek, California
Rossmoor is a gated community in Walnut Creek, California, Walnut Creek, California, with a population of about 9,200. It was one of the first "active adult" communities for residents 55 years or older in the San Francisco Bay Area. History In the 1930s, Scottish-American industrialist Robert Dollar, Stanley Dollar constructed an estate in Tice Creek Valley near Walnut Creek in Contra Costa County, where the Dollar family bred Hereford (cattle), Hereford cattle and raised show horses. The estate expanded from to . In 1960, Dollar's son, Robert Dollar, R. Stanley Dollar Jr., sold the estate to Ross W. Cortese, owner of development company Rossmoor Corporation. Cortese had previously been involved in the development of a different community also called Rossmoor, California, Rossmoor in Orange County, California, Orange County. Cortese initially planned to develop the Walnut Creek Rossmoor as a Leisure World (other), Leisure World community, but abandoned this plan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
