I live in the Town of Butter

I wrote a blog last week that Manteca is a sugar town. But now I am realizing that Manteca was a butter town before it was a sugar town.  In 1917 when the town was incorporated, the name of Manteca was chosen in honor of the history of the creamery.  I am not sure why, being a Spanish speaker, I hadn't realized that every time I said Manteca I was saying butter in Spanish.  I guess the accent hid it from me.  It is pronounced differently in  English than Spanish, and the local way of pronouncing is the English with the tea sound instead of the tay sound.  The creamery existed from 1896 to 1965.  You can read about the creamery in the Manteca Bulletin archives.
http://www.mantecabulletin.com/archives/10243/

You can read about the sugar history of Manteca here
http://bwardlehistory.blogspot.com/2011/06/manteca-is-sugar-town.html