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La Casa Primera de Rancho San Jose is a historic adobe structure built in 1837 in Pomona, California. It is the oldest home located in the Pomona Valley and in the old Rancho San Jose land grant. It was declared a historic landmark in 1954 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in April 1975.
The Historical Museum of San José, managed by the city of San Jose, was founded in 1949 simultaneously with the State House centennial activities. [1] In 1965, Theron Fox persuaded the city of San Jose to set aside 16 acres (6.5 ha) at the south end of Kelley Park to house the San José Historical Museum, intended to be a historical ...
California State Normal School relocated to San Jose. [2] Chinatown fire. Population: 9,089; county 26,246. [14] 1871 – University of the Pacific relocated to San Jose vicinity. [1] 1875 – San Jose Law Library, [11] San Jose Fruit Packing Company, [15] and California Pioneers of Santa Clara County [16] established. 1878 – Home of ...
For thousands of years before the arrival of European settlers, the area now known as San Jose was inhabited by several groups of Ohlone Native Americans. [3] Permanent European presence in the area came with the 1770 founding of the Presidio of Monterey and Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo by Gaspar de Portolà and Junípero Serra, about sixty miles (100 km) to the south.
A claim for the Rancho San Jose Addition was filed with the Land Commission in 1852, [11] and the grant was patented at 4,431 acres (17.9 km 2) to Dalton, Palomares and Véjar in 1875. [10] Palomares and Véjar conducted sheep and cattle operations on Rancho San Jose, also growing crops for consumption by the residents of the rancho.
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]
Heinlenville (Chinese: 海因倫鎮; [5] also called the Sixth Street Chinatown 六街唐人埠 and San Jose Chinatown 散那些唐人埠 [6]) was a Chinese-American ethnic enclave in San Jose, California. Established in 1887 and demolished in 1931, it was the last and longest-lasting of San Jose's five Chinatowns.
The registration for the Edwin Markham House as a California Historical Landmark No. 416 dates back to January 6, 1949. [1] In 1937, the Edwin Markham Poetry Society erected a commemorative plaque, that designates the site of the Edwin Markham Home. The marker is located at the original homesite at 432 South Eighth Street, San José.