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By Syd Whittle, April 25, 2009
Pioneering Murphy Family Marker
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1 ► California, Santa Clara County, San Martin — Pioneering Murphy Family —  |
| Charting a course of their own to become founders of Santa Clara Valley In 1844, Martin Murphy Sr. brought his large, Irish family across the continent in the Stephens-Murphy-Townsend overland part. Their determination, optimism and close . . . — — Map (db m18546) HM | |||
| 2 ► California, Santa Clara County, Sunnyvale, Heritage District — 644 — Home of Martin Murphy, Jr. — |
| 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 . . . — — Map (db m30171) HM | |||