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Royston soon was given important park and playground commissions, many of which gained attention in the national media. Among his more important works were Krusi Park in Alameda, California; Pixie Park in Ross, California; Bowden and Mitchell parks in Palo Alto, California (1956); and, later, Santa Clara's Central Park (1960). Royston rejected ...
Matadero Creek is a stream originating in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains in Santa Clara County, California, United States.The creek flows in a northeasterly direction for 8 miles (13 km) until it enters the Palo Alto Flood Basin, where it joins Adobe Creek in the Palo Alto Baylands at the north end of the Mayfield Slough, just before its culmination in southwest San Francisco Bay.
The National Park Service has acquired a little more than a third of the authorized land for the park, including the 300 acres (1.2 km 2) southern core battlefield tract, which served as the location for Mexican forces during the Battle of Palo Alto. Private landowners still control some 2,000 acres (8.1 km 2) of the battlefield.
The 35-acre property belongs to the Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD), and is leased to the City of Palo Alto. [3] The larger remainder of this site, (approx. 39,000 square feet) was leased since 2002 to the Foothill-De Anza College District for the Middlefield Campus of Foothill College, a local community college. [3]
Barron Creek drains about 3 square miles (7.8 km 2), arising at 350 feet (110 m) in Los Altos Hills, California. [8] It is the most modified creek in the Lower Peninsula Watershed, with 67% of its course classified as "hardened", meaning that most (but not all) of its course north of Foothill Expressway is in a concrete channel to its confluence with Adobe Creek.
Mitchell Park or Mitchell's Park may refer to: Mitchell Park, Victoria, a suburb of Ballarat; Mitchell Park, South Australia, a suburb south of Adelaide Mitchell Park Football Club; Mitchell Park railway station; Mitchell Park, within the Cattai National Park near Sydney, New South Wales; Mitchell Park (Oregon) Mitchell Park (Washington, D.C.)
The Byxbee Park Hills area of Baylands was named for John Fletcher Byxbee Jr., Palo Alto City Engineer from 1906 to 1941. Byxbee was a member of the first graduating class of Palo Alto High School. At Stanford University he studied under C. D. Marx, founder of the City of Palo Alto utilities system, and graduated with a B.A. in Civil ...
Foothills Nature Preserve (formerly named Foothills Park) is a 1,400-acre (570 ha) park and nature preserve in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California, United States, within the city of Palo Alto. From 1969 until 2020, only residents or city employees of Palo Alto and their guests had lawful access to it, a restriction that has sparked "decades ...