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El Palo Alto, circa 2004. El Palo Alto (Spanish: 'the tall stick' [1]) is a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) located on the banks of the San Francisquito Creek in Palo Alto, California, a city in the San Francisco Bay Area. The namesake of the city and a historical landmark, El Palo Alto is 1084–1085 years old and stands 110 feet (34 m) tall.
Palo Alto is named after El Palo Alto, a historic 110 ft tall (34 m) California Redwood on the banks of the San Francisquito Creek, sighted and named by the Portolá expedition in 1769. Before the arrival of Europeans, the Ohlone lived on the San Francisco peninsula; in particular, the Puichon Ohlone lived in the Palo Alto area.
The tree from which Palo Alto takes its name, El Palo Alto, stands on the banks of the creek. In 1857, the United States Coast Survey (USCS) identified 1,142 acres (462 ha) of tidal marsh at the mouth of the creek. There were also two large [63-and-118-acre (25 and 48 ha)] willow groves adjacent to the tidal marsh associated with high ...
English: Picture of University Avenue in Palo Alto, CA. A for-sale sign is visible. The famous El Palo Alto tree is visible in the distance. Captioned at the Palo Alto Museum as "University Avenue at the Circle with train steaming toward El Palo Alto, 1894." See for more information, including authorship and publication without notice in 1939.
English: Original caption: " 'Palo Alto,' the tall tree stands where trains send withering smoke veil around it." Taken from a negative photostat found in Palo Alto Historical Society archives (folder: El Palo Alto). San Francisco News, date is October 17, 1929, found on page 10.
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English: Scanned from a postcard, which indicates publication. Back of postcard says: "Hyde's Book Store, Palo Alto, Cal. Palo Alto Tree. Palo Alto, Cal" "Post Cards of Quality – The Albertype Co., Brooklyn, N.Y." Postcard is postmarked as July 31, 2:30 pm, 1918.
Palo Alto station: Every 60 minutes Market street, pair of tracks on Park and San Carlos, Stevens Creek Road, Mayfield cut-off, El Camino Stub service along the Mayfield cut-off operated in 1909, while the line was under construction. Cut back to Mayfield in 1929. Palo Alto–Los Altos–Los Gatos 1910 October 1, 1934 [10] Palo Alto station ...