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Alameda County government began on June 6, 1853, in its first courthouse, a two-story wooden building erected by Henry C. Smith and A. M. Church as a merchandise store, where county officials met until the seat of government moved to San Leandro in 1856 following a vote of the people of the county in December 1854.
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