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San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. San Mateo is also home to Junipero Serra High School, whose graduates have included Barry Bonds, Tom Brady, Lynn Swann, Gregg Jefferies and Dan Serafini. The earliest recorded history of San Mateo is in the archives of Mission Dolores, indicating the Spaniards in 1789 had named a Native American village along Laurel Creek Los Laureles or the Laurels. The Pulgas Ranch sketch map of 1835 refers to the creek as arroyo de los Laureles, but by now most of the Laurels have vanished.