Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/163
![Ghirardelli ad, 1864](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/The_California_Miner%27s_Almanac_-_1864_-_Ghirardelli_Chocolate.jpg/180px-The_California_Miner%27s_Almanac_-_1864_-_Ghirardelli_Chocolate.jpg)
![Wells Fargo stagecoach](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Concord_Coach_no._251.jpg/100px-Concord_Coach_no._251.jpg)
![Santa Clara in 1910](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/PostcardSantaClaraCAMainStCirca1910.jpg/100px-PostcardSantaClaraCAMainStCirca1910.jpg)
![Oakland train depot, 1867](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Early_Oakland%2C_7th_and_Adeline_Streets%2C_The_Southern_Pacific_Depot%2C_by_William_Keith%2C_1867.jpg/100px-Early_Oakland%2C_7th_and_Adeline_Streets%2C_The_Southern_Pacific_Depot%2C_by_William_Keith%2C_1867.jpg)
• After opening a number of businesses in Peru and California, Italian chocolatier Domenico Ghirardelli imports 200 pounds of cocoa beans and establishes D. Ghirardelli & Co in San Francisco (1864 advertisement pictured, left)
• Henry Wells and William G. Fargo establish Wells, Fargo & Company in San Francisco, a joint-stock association with an initial capitalization of $300,000, to provide express and banking services (iconic stagecoach pictured, right)
• The city of Santa Clara is incorporated in Santa Clara County (1910 postcard pictured, right)
• Oakland is incorporated in Alameda County (1867 painting shown, right)
• Francis K. Shattuck, George Blake, and two partners they met in the gold fields, William Hillegass and James Leonard, lay claim to four adjoining 160-acre (0.65 km2) strips of land north of Oakland