Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Menlo Park, CA

Menlo Park is a city in San Mateo County on the eastern edge of the San Francisco Peninsula, bordered by San Francisco Bay to the north and east, and it had 33,780 residents at the 2020 census, up from 32,026 in 2010.

The town was founded in 1854 by Irish immigrants Dennis J. Oliver and D. C. McGlynn, who named it for Menlough in County Galway, Ireland, and erected a wooden gate arch inscribed 'Menlo Park' at the entrance to their ranch.

Menlo Park grew up around its railroad station, and its 1867 station building still stands on the Caltrain platform, holding the record as the oldest continually operating train station in California.

The city was first incorporated in 1874 but dissolved after two years, and it was permanently incorporated on November 23, 1927.

Menlo Park is the corporate headquarters of Meta Platforms - Facebook moved its headquarters there in 2011 into the former Sun Microsystems campus at 1 Hacker Way.

Google was founded in a Menlo Park garage in 1998, when co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin rented Susan Wojcicki's garage as their first office for $1,700 a month.

SRI International began in Menlo Park in 1947 as the Stanford Research Institute, and Roblox, Round Table Pizza and SRI International were all founded in the city.

Menlo Park is one of the most educated cities in California and the United States - nearly 70% of residents over 25 have earned a bachelor's degree or higher.

In 1917-18 much of Menlo Park was Camp Fremont, a World War I training camp that held up to 27,000 men, and Army engineers there paved the city's first streets and laid its first water and gas lines.

During World War II the Dibble General Hospital in Menlo Park treated wounded soldiers returning from the Pacific theatre from 1943 to 1946.