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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.
El Camino Real (Spanish; literally The Royal Road, sometimes translated as The King's Highway) is a 600-mile (965-kilometer) commemorative route connecting the 21 Spanish missions in California (formerly the region Alta California in the Spanish Empire), along with a number of sub-missions, four presidios, and three pueblos.
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: 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.
Palo Alto: Santa Clara: Bolsa del Pajaro: 1837 Juan Alvarado: Sebastian Rodriguez 5,496 acres (2,224 ha) 283 SD Watsonville: Santa Cruz: Aguajito (Villagrana) 1837 Juan B. Alvarado: Miguel Villagrana 44.32 acres (18 ha) 282 SD Santa Cruz: Santa Cruz: Los Guilicos: 1837 Juan Alvarado: John Wilson 18,834 acres (7,622 ha) 94 ND Kenwood: Sonoma ...
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The plan consisted of carrying out a dilatory defense by means of successive defense lines, located on the mound of El Pital, in the Alto de Mondomo and at the heights of Tremblera and Cascabel, this would attract the enemy, and cause as much damage as possible, before leading them to the fortified positions at the El Palo field, where Cabal ...