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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ8U_hori-midwife-house_San-Jose-CA.html
My grandmother kept her patients in the house for five days. My mother cooked the meals and grandmother would serve them. My mother was a very good cook. My dad taught her how; he'd learned to cook while working as a houseboy to put himself throug…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ8S_dr-john-towsend_San-Jose-CA.html
Born in Pennsylvania, died in San JoseDec. 8, 1850A leader of the Stephens-Townsend-MurphyParty of 1844First American M.D. to settle in CaliforniaServed as physician, alcalde, and councilman in San Francisco before moving to a farm north of San Jo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ8R_william-henry-eddy_San-Jose-CA.html
He led the forlorn hope of the Donner Party.Dedicated Memorial Day, 1946
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ8P_margaret-caldwell-fox_San-Jose-CA.html
Born: Mission Santa Clara, February 12, 1847Died: Saratoga, April 1, 1865First child born to Anglo-American overland emigrants in Santa Clara County.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ8N_charles-henry-mckiernan_San-Jose-CA.html
Most colorful of all characters in Santa Cruz Mountains.
First white settler in Santa Cruz Mountain section, a pioneer hunter, rancher, teamster and road-builder.His motto was "Right Wrongs Nobody."
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ7Z_the-chiechi-house_San-Jose-CA.html
A late Victorian example of simplified Italianate architecture, the Chiechi House was built in approximately 1876 by John and Jane Campbell. In 1913 the house, at 820 Northrup Avenue, was purchased by Michele Chiechi. Prominent valley orchardists,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ7Y_the-zanker-house_San-Jose-CA.html
The Zanker House is a mid-19th Century example of an informal Victorian Italianate farmhouse. The house, built of California redwood, was originally located north of the Alviso-Milpitas Road on the west side of Zanker Road.
The outhouse is the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ7W_the-umbarger-house_San-Jose-CA.html
In 1851 David Umbarger, a "forty-niner" from West Virginia, bought 136.5 acres in the Santa Clara Valley. Umbarger built this house on his homestead in the 1870s.
Like many ex-miners who remained in California, Umbarger started farming in order…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ7U_empire-firehouse_San-Jose-CA.html
The San Jose Fire Department, initially an intensely dedicated volunteer organization until the hiring of professionals in 1876, was established by a City ordinance in 1854. In that same year, a firehouse was erected on Lightston Street, functioni…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ7T_the-nelson-deluz-house_San-Jose-CA.html
The Nelson-DeLuz House was constructed about 1905 at the southeast corner of William and 11th Streets. It is a typical middle class home of transitional architecture with neoclassic features. It bears a striking similarity to the published plans o…