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Caption: Close-Up of Photo on Marker
Additional Description: Alviso is named for Ignacio Alviso, a soldier in the 1776 de Anza expedition to California. In 1838, he was granted Rincon de los Esteros, a large rancho at the edge of the South Bay, where he established the port of Embarcadero de Santa Clara.
Much of the rancho was then sold to American businessmen, who founded the actual town. Alviso has been home to a multi-ethnic community associated with south Bay canning, mining, salt harvesting, and agriculture.

The Port of Alviso and the South Pacific Coast Railroad operated at the same time, circa 1870. The railroad eventually doomed the shipping industry.

Photo: California History Center Foundation
De Anza College, Cupertino, Ca.
Submitted: November 11, 2009, by Syd Whittle of Mesa, Arizona.
Database Locator Identification Number: p85223
File Size: 3.226 Megabytes

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