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Santa Clara (1939 population 6,303), Mountain View (1939 population 3,308) and other Santa Clara County cities also grew to many times their 1939 population size. However, vestiges of the old orchards remained, throughout the county, and as late as 1970 San Jose was still classified as partly rural by the United States Census , although the ...
1875 – San Jose Law Library, [11] San Jose Fruit Packing Company, [15] and California Pioneers of Santa Clara County [16] established. 1878 – Home of Benevolence founded. [ 1 ]
History of: Santa Clara County, California; Subcategories. This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total. * History of Silicon Valley (3 C, 18 P) E.
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 ...
Pages in category "History of Santa Clara, California" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Portolá-Crespí Expedition 1769–1771, Discovers Most of California Coast from San Diego to San Francisco, Claims Land for Spain. Pedro Fages 1st Expedition 1770 Discovers East San Francisco Bay, Salinas Valley & Santa Clara Valley. Pedro Fages 2nd Expedition 1772 Discovers San Joaquin Valley, Old Tejon Pass, & Antelope Valley.
(Mission Santa Clara, the closest mission, was founded earlier in 1777, three miles (5 km) from the original pueblo site in neighboring Santa Clara. Mission San José was not founded until 1797, about 20 miles (30 km) north of San Jose in what is now Fremont.) The town was founded by the colonists led to California by Anza, as a farming ...
San Jose City and Santa Clara County Directory. Polk-Husted. 1902 – via Google Books. Mary Jo Ignoffo (2002). Milestones: a history of Mountain View, California. California History Center & Foundation. ISBN 978-0-935089-27-1. "A look back: Timeline of Mountain View history", San Jose Mercury News, March 2007; Nicholas Perry; Kimberly Chan (2012).