#alamo

#alamo

A house in Alamo that sold for $4.6 million tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Contra Costa County in the past week. The county saw a total of 219 residential real estate sales during the past week, averaging $970,110. The average price per square foot was $550. The prices in the list below include real estate sales where the title was recorded during the week of Dec. 15 even if the property may have been sold earlier.

By the time he reached the Alamo in February 1836, he was an internationally recognized American hero, and his death at the Battle of the Alamo, at the hands of Antonio López de Santa Anna, was reported worldwide, transforming him finally into the celebrity martyr of the Alamo. Crockett remained a popular figure throughout the 19th century and into the 20th, as early films featured him as a heroic figure of the West.