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After Santa Clara County was formed on April 25, 1851, a contest was held to select a design for a new building worthy of being a state capitol in 1860. The winning entry, designed by Levi Goodrich, was constructed from 1866 to 1868 at a cost of US$173,737.96 (equivalent to $3,980,000 in 2023). [2] The courthouse was destroyed by fire in May 1931.
Grant Lake, also called Halls Valley Lake, is an artificial lake located in Santa Clara County, California. It is located 1,598 ft (487 m) above sea level within Joseph D. Grant County Park . See also
The lake is actually a reservoir that lies west of Interstate 280 and bounded by Alpine Road and the Pearson Arastradero Preserve on Arastradero Road. Felt Lake was constructed in 1876 by gold miner and lumber dealer Job Johnston Felt, who bought 700 acres in northern Santa Clara County to farm.
The Lake Cunningham–Eastridge Mall area was one of Santa Clara Valley's three permanent wetland complexes called "lagunas". The area was called Laguna Socayre (or Secayre) during the initial Euro-American settlement (1769–1850), and was part of the Rancho Yerba Buena or Rancho Socayre land grant of 1833.
West Santa Clara is an unincorporated census county division (CCD) located on the eastern side of the Santa Cruz Mountains in northwest Santa Clara County, California. [3] The area covers approximately 50 square miles (130 km 2), much of it open space, [4] and contains Boronda Lake, Felt Lake, and Lake Ranch reservoirs, as well as Sanborn [5] and Stevens Creek [6] county parks.
Santa Clara County, officially the County of Santa Clara, is the sixth-most populous county in the U.S. state of California, with a population of 1,936,259 as of the 2020 census. [4] Santa Clara County and neighboring San Benito County form the San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara metropolitan statistical area , which is part of the larger San ...
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