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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10JL_f-e-cornells-country-store_Sunnyvale-CA.html
This building was erected in October of 1897 as F.E. Cornell's Country Emporium, the first commercial building in town. In December 1897, a corner of the store was set aside as a post office and officially designated "Encinal". Since another post …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK92_de-anza-expedition-1775-1776_Sunnyvale-CA.html
Lt. Colonel Juan Bautista de Anza by decree of Carlos III of Spain led an expedition to this site - The mission being to colonize the San Francisco Bay Area. In the center of the marker is a circular motif, designed by Doris Birkland Beezley, o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK7C_hendy-stamp-mill-hendys-california-stamp-mill_Sunnyvale-CA.html
Hendy Stamp MillDuring the California Gold Rush, Hendy Iron Works built mining and stamp mill machinery exclusively. They supplied mining operations around the world with 5-stamp mills that could operate as a single unit or as multiple units of up…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK58_home-of-martin-murphy-jr_Sunnyvale-CA.html
Martin Murphy, Jr. arrived in California with his family in 1844 in the first wagon train to cross the Sierra Nevada. The founder of Sunnyvale, he constructed here his house of pre-fabricated lumber brought around the Horn in 1849. Members of the …
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