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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZRO_first-site-of-el-pueblo-de-san-jose-de-guadalupe_San-Jose-CA.html
Within a year after the opening of the first overland route from Mexico to Alta California, Governor Filipe de Neve authorized the establishment of the first civil settlement in the state on lands including and surrounding the present Civic Center…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZJD_san-jos-diridon-station_San-Jose-CA.html
Rededicated December 8, 1994by thePeninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board · Supervisor Tom Haieh, Chair · Supervisor Mike Nevin, Vice Chair · Commissioner Phillip Adams · Councilmember Jin Beall · Supervisor Rod Di…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZJC_captain-thomas-fallon_San-Jose-CA.html
This statue of Captain Thomas Fallon was commissioned in 1988. It memorialize the raising of the U.S. flag in San Jose in 1846, when California was still a part of Mexico. Scheduled to by installed in 1990, the statue generated and intense controv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZJB_pellier-park_San-Jose-CA.html
[This markers in composed of three photographs with captions. Reading from left to right:] San Jose City Gardens NurseryPeople traveled far and wide to visit Louis Pellier's City Gardens Nursery and purchase orchard and vineyard fruit varieties fr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZJA_pellier-park_San-Jose-CA.html
Pellier Park is all that remains of the City Gardens Nursery, established by Louis Pellier in 1850. Here with, his brothers, Pierre and Jean, Louis introduced "la petite D'Agen," the French Prune, during the winter of 1856-1857. I was this variety…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZG0_shri-chhatrapati-shivaji-maharaj_San-Jose-CA.html
Shivaji founded Pune (circa 1640). He was the first modern warrior who successfully fought the foreign invaders for 40 years and established a Maratha Kingdom that lasted 200 years with Pune as its Capital.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZFY_henrys-hi-life_San-Jose-CA.html
Henry's Hi-Life, once known as the Torino Hotel, was opened in 1960 by Henry Puckett (1914-1986). Originally a boarding house for dozens of newly immigrated Italian workers, the building was first named the new Progress Hotel.
Charles Sacco, a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKIE_thomas-fallon-house_San-Jose-CA.html
This house was built by Thomas Fallon in 1854. A handsome, charismatic figure, Fallon was one of the early San Jos?'s most prominent citizens: he captained the volunteer company that seized San Jos? from the Mexicans, served in the California Batt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK4N_the-juan-bautista-de-anza-trail_San-Jose-CA.html
The Juan Bautista de Anza National HistoricTrail marks a 1,200 mile route that brought settlers to California from Tubac, in present-day Arizona, to what is now San Francisco.
The Spanish planned a system of Presidios, or military forts, and mi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XC_luis-mar-a-peralta-adobe_San-Jose-CA.html
The last vestige of El Pueblo de San Jose de Guadalupe, the simple adobe, rehabilitated in the mid-19th century, is believed built before 1800 by Manuel Gonzalez, an Apache, who was one of the pobladores (founders). Later owned and occupied by Sgt…