Daly City, city (2020 pop. 104,901),
San Mateo co., W Calif., a suburb of San Francisco; inc. 1911. Daly City is
primarily residential, its population having grown significantly since the
1970s. The “Cow Palace,” scene of the 1964 Republican national
convention, is there. Sparsely settled until the 1860s, when a small
community developed by the railroad station near dairyman John Daly's farm,
Daly City burgeoned when refugees from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
settled on lots carved from the farm. The area remained largely agricultural
until after World War II.
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