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4 Environmental Analysis 4.5 Cultural Resources In 1872, Reinhold Haera, a German immigrant and relative of Franz Haera, was granted 160 acres of land near Midway (within the Project area, see Section 4.3). The 1880 census for Alameda County lists Reinhold Haera's age at 36 years, his occupation as a farmer, and wife Mary Haera (age 30), daughters Mary J. (age 9), Katie (age 5), and Lizzie (age 1), and son Albert (age 3) (U.S. Census Bureau 1880). In the 1880s, Reinhold served as the postmaster for Midway. He died in 1926 in Oakland, California (Ancestry 2022). In 1883, Franz and Reinhold Haera and Michael MulQueeney petitioned to construct the Midway Public School. The school was originally built on either the MulQueeney Ranch or Haera Ranch near the intersection of Patterson Pass Road and Midway Road (Shazo 2018). The Midway school house had 16 students in 1878 (Thompson and West 1878:161). The Midway Public School was in use from 1883 to 1946 and the building was eventually moved to the MulQueeney ranch property(1 mile southwest from the Project area)to protect it from vandalism (Shazo 2018). In 1902, John MulQueeney (son of Michael MulQueeney), Cecilia Haera, and Reinhold Haera petitioned the Board of Supervisors to save their homes from the Southern Pacific Company that laid a claim to a right-of-way (ROW) of 400 feet, encompassing the entire town of Midway (The San Francisco Call 1902). By the early 1900s, ranching and farming were the main economic industry in Midway and the rural neighborhood consisted of approximately 30 residents (Shazo 2018). Previously recorded site P-01-010500, recorded as the Haera-Brockman-Griffith Ranch complex, is adjacent(west) of the Project area. The Haera-Brockman family cemetery (previously recorded as site P-01-010498) is located 0.5 mile northwest of the Project area. The Midway Public School is previously recorded as site P-01-012147 and is approximately 1 mile southwest of the Project area. No additional historic information was available for the Haera or MulQueeney families through census sources, historical newspaper articles, or other online sources. The Standard Oil Company constructed an oil pipeline from Bakersfield to the Midway Station in 1910, and the station included several tanks. During this time, the economic use of the land began to shift to include energy production. Electrical power distribution was an important factor in the development of California's industries and public utilities. The Tesla electrical substation and adjacent Butler Building (P-01-010502) were built during the late 1940s and are west of the Project area. The substation is a critical power source for both the greater Bay Area and San Joaquin County. As of 2018, the substation was connected to the bulk power system via five 500-kilovolt (kV) lines, fourteen 230-kV lines, three 500/230-kV transformers, and two 230/115-kV transformers (PG&E 2018). PG&E's Tracy-Tesla 230-kV overhead transmission line (P-01-011395)was built between 1949 and 1953 and is west of the Project area. The Pittsburg-Tesla 230-kV overhead transmission line (P-01-010947) extends 31 miles from the Tesla substation to the Pittsburg substation and is west of the Project. As part of the Pacific Northwest-Pacific Southwest Intertie, high-voltage, electrical transmission lines, the Vaca Dixon-Tesla and Table Mountain Tesla 500-kV, high-voltage, overhead transmission line (P-01-10499) was constructed from the late 1960s to the early 1970s and is west of the Project area. The Tesla-Salado-Mateca 115-kV transmission line (P-10-005337) was constructed in ca. 1920s to 2000s and is southwest of the Project area. Griffith Energy Storage Project 4.5-8 Tetra Tech/SCH 2022120675 Draft Environmental Impact Report August 2023