Hayward

City, Alameda county, California, U.S., at the eastern terminus of the San Mateo Toll Bridge across San Francisco Bay. Named for William Hayward, a disappointed gold seeker who arrived in 1851 and opened a hotel, it was originally an Indian campsite on grazing lands of Mission San Jos� (established 1797) and later part of the Guillermo Castro Rancho. Promoted by San Francisco businessmen,