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  2. History of San Jose, California - Wikipedia

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    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 community to provide food for the presidios of San Francisco and Monterey.

  3. San Jose, California - Wikipedia

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    San Jose was founded on November 29, 1777, as the Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, the first city founded in the Californias. [29] It became a part of Mexico in 1821 after the Mexican War of Independence. Following the American Conquest of California during the Mexican–American War, the territory was ceded to the United States in 1848.

  4. Timeline of San Jose, California - Wikipedia

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    1977 – San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles founded. 1980 – Rotary Club of San Jose and San Jose Repertory Theatre founded. 1981 – Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose established. 1982 – Adobe in business. [35] 1983 1983 San Jose School District California bankruptcy; Tom McEnery becomes mayor. 1985 – Market Post Tower built. 1986

  5. List of oldest schools in California - Wikipedia

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    Saint Mary's College of California is founded in San Francisco. It later moved to Oakland, and moved again in 1928 to its current location in Moraga. San Jose High Academy, the oldest public high school in San Jose, is founded. Heald College was founded in San Francisco. Eventually, Heald College expanded to twelve campuses in California ...

  6. Downtown San Jose - Wikipedia

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    The town was first settled in 1777. The area that now makes up downtown was first settled twenty years later, when the town of San Jose moved somewhat inland from its original location on the banks of the Guadalupe River. In 1850, San Jose incorporated to become California's first city and the location of California's first state capitol.

  7. Santa Clara County, California - Wikipedia

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    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 JoseSan Francisco–Oakland combined statistical area. Santa Clara is the most populous county in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Northern California.

  8. Mission San José (California) - Wikipedia

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    Mission San José is a Spanish mission located in the present-day city of Fremont, California, United States.It was founded on June 11, 1797, by the Franciscan order and was the fourteenth Spanish mission established in California.

  9. History of San Jose State University - Wikipedia

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    However after the San Jose Railroad Company paid to have the entire student and faculty body tour the city and potential locations for the school, San Jose became the preferred site. [7] The school moved to San Jose in 1871 and was given Washington Square Park at S. 4th and San Carlos Streets, where the campus remains to this day. [8]