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History Park at Kelley Park in San Jose, California, USA is designed as an indoor/outdoor museum, arranged to appear as a small US town might have in the early 1900s (decade). Since its inauguration in 1971, 32 historic buildings and other landmarks have either been moved from their original San Jose locations or are represented by replicas.
History Park at Kelley Park (a.k.a. History San Jose), which itself includes: Portuguese Historical Museum; Viet Museum; The Leininger Center, just south of Happy Hollow, is the central location where citizens apply for city park permits and reservations. [1] Most of the rest of the park is picnic areas, lawns, groves of trees, and plenty of ...
Old Town San Diego State Historic Park; Olompali State Historic Park; Petaluma Adobe State Historic Park; Pigeon Point Light Station State Historic Park; Pío Pico State Historic Park; Point Sur State Historic Park; Railtown 1897 State Historic Park; Robert Louis Stevenson State Park; San Juan Bautista State Historic Park; San Pasqual ...
Historic Alum Rock Bridge used by the interurban park railway from 1913 to 1932. Construction of a narrow-gauge railway to the park from downtown San Jose began in 1891. In late 1891, or early 1892, a gasoline powered locomotive built by the Best Manufacturing Company arrived. This was the first internal combustion locomotive built in the ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Alameda County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map. [1]
Almaden Quicksilver County Park is a 4,163 acres (17 km 2) park that includes the grounds of former mercury ("quicksilver") mines adjacent to south San Jose, California, USA. The park's elevation varies greatly: the most used entrances (on the east side of the park) are less than 600 feet (183 m) above sea level , while the highest point in the ...
The Hensley Historic District is named after Helen Mary (née Crosby; 1831–1917) and Samuel J. Hensley (c. 1816–1866), they were active during the early formation of the state and in the Bear Flag Revolt. [4] [6] The Hensley name is also used for the street in San Jose, and the downtown "Hensley Block" at Market and Santa Clara Streets. [7]
The development of American commercial areas in San Jose extended into this newly surveyed area, just east of the original pueblo site of 1797 (relocated from the 1777 site after major flooding). In the 1870s and mid-1880s, the heart of downtown commercial activity had moved northward along Market Street (immediately west of First Street and ...