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San Jose is the county seat of Santa Clara County and the main component of the San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara Metropolitan Statistical Area, with an estimated population of around two million residents in 2018. [20] San Jose is notable for its innovation, cultural diversity, [21] affluence, [22] and sunny and mild Mediterranean climate. [23]
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.
Downtown San Jose is the central business district of San Jose, California, United States. Downtown is one of the largest tech clusters in Silicon Valley , as well as the cultural and political center of 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.
1861 – San Jose Daily Mercury newspaper begins publication. [8] 1862 – California State Normal School founded. [1] 1864 – San Francisco-San Jose Railway in operation. [2] 1865 – St. Joseph High School established. [12] 1866 – Santa Clara Argus newspaper begins publication. [8] 1867 – San Jose YMCA established. [13]
San José or San Jose (Spanish for Saint Joseph) most often refers to: San Jose, California, United States; San José, Costa Rica, the nation's capital;
The government of San Jose, officially the City of San José, operates as a charter city within California law under the San José City Charter. [1] The elected government of the city, which operates as a council–manager government, is composed of the Mayor of San Jose (currently Matt Mahan), the San Jose City Council, and several other elected offices.
San Jose City Hall in 1854. San Jose was incorporated as one of California's first cities on March 27, 1850. Mayor Josiah Belden convened the city council for the first time on April 13 at the juzgado, a short distance from the plaza mayor where the first California State Legislature was in session. [20] The juzgado was sold and torn down that ...