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Milpitas (Spanish for ' little milpas ' or little cornfields) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States, in Silicon Valley.As of the 2020 census, the city population was 80,273. [7]
List of Mayors of Milpitas # Image Mayor Term start Term end Notes / Citations Elected by City Council; 1 Tom Evatt January 26, 1954 April 17, 1956 [1] 2 Tom Cardoza April 17, 1956 April 15, 1958 3 Jack Johns April 15, 1958 April 19, 1960 4 Richard B. Taylor April 19, 1960 April 17, 1962 5 W. D. (Denny) Weisgerber April 17, 1962 April 19, 1966 ...
Rancho Milpitas was a 4,458-acre (18.04 km 2) Mexican land grant in Santa Clara County, California. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The name comes from the Nahuatl "milpan", a term meaning "in the field". Therefore, Milpitas could be translated as "little fields".
San Jose Assembly was a Ford Motor Company manufacturing site in Northern California, outside of San Jose in what is now the town of Milpitas.It was the automaker's primary factory in that region from 1955 to 1983, [1] [2] replacing the Richmond Assembly facility.
The José María Alviso Adobe, located in Milpitas, California, United States, was the home of José María Alviso, an early alcalde (mayor) of neighboring Pueblo de San Jose. It was built in 1837 and enlarged in the early 1850s, and stands as an excellent example of the Monterey Colonial style of architecture popularized throughout California ...
Marcy Renee Conrad, 14, was raped and killed by 16-year-old Anthony Jacques Broussard in his home in Milpitas, California, on November 3, 1981. [4] Her body was transported in Broussard's pickup truck into nearby hills and dumped in a ravine. [1] An autopsy confirmed that Conrad had been raped and then murdered by strangulation.
Milpitas High School was directly preceded by Samuel Ayer High School.A continuum of education had existed in what is now the City of Milpitas since the Spanish colonial era, only to be interrupted by brief periods from 1848 to 1858 upon the secularization of the Californian missions, and 1954–1959, in which James Lick High School in the nearby city of San Jose became the high school for ...
Ben F. Gross (1921 – August 13, 2012) was an American politician, union leader, and civil right activist who was the first African-American to serve as mayor of Milpitas and the first African-American mayor to lead a predominantly white city in California.