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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.
From 2002 to 2006, Morgan Quitno Press named San Jose the safest city in the United States with a population over 500,000 people. [195] Crime in San Jose had been lower than in other large American cities until 2013, when crime rates in San Jose climbed above California and U.S. averages. [196]
1803 – San Jose de Guadalupe church built. [2] 1805 – Mission San Jose's church built in 1805, not 1803, and named La Mission del Gloriosisimo Patriarch San Jose, or just Mission San Jose, but not San Jose de Guadalupe according to San Jose Mission's history page. [3] 1809 – Mission San Jose's church completed and dedicated. [4]
The present-day Reed Elementary School is named after Frazier O. Reed, a grandson of James F. Reed. [6] In 1851, during the California statehood process, Reed was a leading proponent of a plan to make San Jose the capital of California, and he donated four city blocks to the cause.
San José or San Jose (Spanish for Saint Joseph) most often refers to: ... San Jose, California, the largest city in the world named San Jose Downtown San Jose, ...
San Jose Must Have An Airport – 1929. In 1939, Ernie Renzel, a wholesale grocer and future mayor of San Jose, led a group that negotiated an option to buy 483 acres (195 ha) of the Stockton Ranch from the Crocker family, to be the site of San Jose's airport. Renzel led the effort to pass a bond measure to pay for the land in 1940.
To assign a single reason for that -- such as name -- would obviously be a gross oversimplification. And as Pew has noted , sociologists and economists haven't landed on a consensus to explain the ...
San Jose was California's first town. On November 29, 1777, on orders from the Spanish viceroy of Mexico, nine soldiers, five pobladores (settlers) with their families, and one cowboy were detailed to found the Pueblo de San Jose de Guadalupe, named in honor of Saint Joseph. The already existing Spanish Catholic missions were not pleased with ...