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Santa Clara was given its name from the Mission Santa Clara de Asis, one of the many missions that the Spanish created during their rule in California. Although the mission was founded in 1777, the city was not officially incorporated until 1852, about two years after California received statehood.
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- 1854 - Santa Clara
Santa Clara, a county in the W. central part of California, has an area estimated at above 1 200 square miles. It is bounded on the X. E. by the Coast...Read MORE... 
1869 - About seven months ago, a lady in Santa Clara, Cal., in kneeling down for the purpose of religious devotion,
knelt on the edge of a spring to her hoop skirt. She experienced some little pain in her knee at the time, but thought it no serious matter. However, ...Read MORE...- 1870 - The straw in a barn-yard near Santa Clara, California, was set on fire by a piece of meteoric iron which fell there the other day.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
December 31, 1870 - 1871 - An orchard at Santa Clara, Cal, has 3,000 fruit trees and any quantity of rhubarb plants and berry vines. The proprietor does business altogether in dried fruits. Not a pound of fruit is allowed to waste.
That which is partly decayed is converted into excellent vinegar. - Hearth and Home
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
October 23, 1871 - 1871 - The cultivation of the strawberry in California has been most successful, on lands irrigated by artesian wells, in Santa Clara Valley.
This year the vines yielded more abundantly than ever before, and the business is represented as overdone, the prices having fallen so low as to leave...Read MORE... - 1889 - It was stated by the Governor of Lower California on the 26th that the discoveries at the Santa Clara placers had been exaggerated, and only practical miners were finding gold.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
March 30, 1889 - 1895 - Santa Clara
Santa Ciara, a post-village in Santa Clara township, Santa Clara co., Cal., is in a fertile valley of its own name, on the Southern Pacific Railroad, ...Read MORE... 
Bridge Over Los Gatos Creek, California
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Santa Clara, a banking post-town of Santa Clara co., Cal., is in a fertile valley of its own name, on the Southern Pacific R., 46 miles SSE. of San Fr...Read MORE... 
Santa Clara College, Santa Clara, Cal.
"The first two colleges in California were founded at the height of the Gold Rush in 1851, both in the small agricultural town of Santa Clara. Less than a year after California was granted statehood, Santa... Read MORE...
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Beautiful California - Prune Orchard in Bloom, Santa Clara Valley
Postcard- 1968 - July 18 - The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California
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July 18, 1968
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"The first two colleges in California were founded at the height of the Gold Rush in 1851, both in the small agricultural town of Santa Clara. Less than a year after California was granted statehood, Santa Clara College, forerunner of Santa Clara University, was the first to open its doors to students and thus is considered the state’s oldest operating institution of higher education. Shortly after Santa Clara began instruction, the Methodist-run California Wesleyan College received a charter from the State Superior Court on July 10, 1851—the first granted in California—and it began enrolling students in May of the following year. Santa Clara’s Jesuit founders lacked the $20,000 endowment required for a charter, which was eventually accumulated and a charter granted on April 28, 1855. Santa Clara bears the distinction of awarding California’s first bachelor's degree, bestowed upon Thomas I. Bergin in 1857, as well as its first graduate degree granted two years later." wikipedia)
Santa Clara College, Santa Clara, Cal.
"The first two colleges in California were founded at the height of the Gold Rush in 1851, both in the small agricultural town of Santa Clara. Less than a year after California was granted statehood, Santa... Read MORE...
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1854 - Santa Clara
Santa Clara, a county in the W. central part of California, has an area estimated at above 1 200 square miles. It is bounded on the X. E. by the... Read MORE...
1869 - About seven months ago, a lady in Santa Clara, Cal., in kneeling down for the purpose of religious devotion,
knelt on the edge of a spring to her hoop skirt. She experienced some little pain in her knee at the time, but thought it no serious matter. However, ... Read MORE...
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1870 - The straw in a barn-yard near Santa Clara, California, was set on fire by a piece of meteoric iron which fell there the other day.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
December 31, 1870
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1871 - The cultivation of the strawberry in California has been most successful, on lands irrigated by artesian wells, in Santa Clara Valley.
This year the vines yielded more abundantly than ever before, and the business is represented as overdone, the prices having fallen so low as to... Read MORE...
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1871 - An orchard at Santa Clara, Cal, has 3,000 fruit trees and any quantity of rhubarb plants and berry vines. The proprietor does business altogether in dried fruits. Not a pound of fruit is allowed to waste.
That which is partly decayed is converted into excellent vinegar. - Hearth and Home St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
October 23, 1871
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1889 - It was stated by the Governor of Lower California on the 26th that the discoveries at the Santa Clara placers had been exaggerated, and only practical miners were finding gold.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
March 30, 1889
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1895 - Santa Clara
Santa Ciara, a post-village in Santa Clara township, Santa Clara co., Cal., is in a fertile valley of its own name, on the Southern Pacific Railroad, ... Read MORE...
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1906
Santa Clara, a banking post-town of Santa Clara co., Cal., is in a fertile valley of its own name, on the Southern Pacific R., 46 miles SSE. of San... Read MORE...
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1968 - July 18 - The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California
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July 18, 1968
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