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Historical Markers and War Memorials in San Jose, California
San Jose is the county seat for Santa Clara County
San Jose is in Santa Clara County
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San Jose’s first Hebrew congregation – Bickur Cholim – was founded August 5, 1861. The congregation met in City Hall and at various locations in the downtown prior to building their first facility on this site in 1870. Used continuously . . . — — Map (db m52655) HM
Amadeo Peter Giannini, founder of the Bank of Italy – now the Bank of America – was born at 79 N. Market St. on May 6, 1870. Perhaps San Jose's most famous native, Giannini is considered by many to be the greatest figure in American banking. A . . . — — Map (db m30166) HM
This statue of Captain Thomas Fallon was commissioned in 1988. It memorializes the raising of the U.S. flag in San Jose in 1846, when California was still part of Mexico. Scheduled to be installed in 1990, the statue generated an intense . . . — — Map (db m232903) HM
On this site in 1909, Charles "Doc” Herrold aired the first
regularly scheduled radio programs, giving birth to
broadcasting. Initially identified as "This is San Jose calling,"
the station was later licensed as KQW before it became
KCBS. . . . — — Map (db m155118) HM
From 1872 to 1887, a large Chinese population occupied this block of Market Street. Despite considerable discrimination against them, the Chinese managed to survive within their insular community. By the late 1880's, as downtown businesses began . . . — — Map (db m26214) HM
The sisters of Notre Dame de Namur founded their college on this site in 1851. The facility began modestly but eventually expanded to occupy the entire north side of Santa Clara Street from Almaden Avenue to Santa Teresa Street. A boarding school . . . — — Map (db m52660) HM
Local Scottish Rite Masons built their hall on this site in 1909. Designed by George Page, it was a simple rectangular structure with a severe Greek Revival façade. When the Masons moved into the new Scottish Rite Temple in 1925, the vacated . . . — — Map (db m30261) HM
When completed in 1881, the 237-foot electric light tower that once spanned the intersection of Market and Santa Clara Streets was the largest single source of electric light in the country. The brainchild of J.J. Owen, founder of the San Jose . . . — — Map (db m31114) HM
The Farmers Union Corporation, established in this building in 1874, was once indispensible to San Jose’s farming community. It served as an agricultural cooperative and bank and throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries was the chief . . . — — Map (db m52658) HM
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, was designed by Willis Polk and built in 1905. The plan of the building is a Greek cross; four Ionic columns dominate the entry portico. Since the construction of a new church in 1946, the building has been . . . — — Map (db m30226) HM
The first California State Legislature met on this site in 1849. San Jose was designated State Capital at the Constitutional Convention in Monterey after intensive lobbying by local representatives. The town made every effort to accommodate the . . . — — Map (db m52633) HM
Directly opposite this tablet was located the first State Capitol Building in which California’s first legislature assembled in December 1849. San Jose was the seat of government from 1849 to 1851. — — Map (db m3615) HM
This building, designed by George W. Page in 1891, became the permanent home of a congregation that first met in City Hall in 1866. A version of Richardsonian Romanesque style, the innovative structure withstood the earthquake of 1906 and became a . . . — — Map (db m30126) HM
Brigadier General United States Volunteers
Lieutenant Colonel United States Army
A Citizen of San Jose
Born 1815 • Settled in California 1847 • Died 1886
This monument commemorates his service to the Country
in the Mexican and Civil . . . — — Map (db m30196) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m52490) HM
Charles Herrold, a pioneer in radio, was the first person to transmit radio programs of music and news to a listening audience. Beginning in 1909, three years before Congress’ Radio Act of 1912, Herrold broadcast from his College of Engineering and . . . — — Map (db m30335) HM
Completed in 1931, as a civic improvement project during the Great Depression, the Hotel De Anza was named in honor of the Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza. Business and civic leaders established the San Jose Community Hotel Association which . . . — — Map (db m52659) HM
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International Business Machines : RAMAC
In 1952, IBM sent Reynold Johnson to San José to open its first West Coast development laboratory to research new data storage methods. At this site in 1955, IBM unveiled . . . — — Map (db m30095) HM
On this site stood the Juzgado, or town hall, of the Pueblo de San José. Constructed of adobe in 1798, it housed the jail, the court and the offices of the comisionado and alcalde, and was the pueblo's primary governmental building. When Captain . . . — — Map (db m31152) HM
This charming commercial structure was built in 1889 by Sarah Knox-Goodrich on property left to her by her first husband, Dr. William Knox, using sandstone from the quarry owned by her second husband, Levi Goodrich. Both men were important San José . . . — — Map (db m30960) HM
The San José Labor Temple, located at 72 North Second Street, was a hub of the city’s turn of the century labor movement. It was established informally between 1901 and 1903 by Harry Ryan, an early San José labor leader, and Jack London, the famous . . . — — Map (db m30444) HM
This commercial building was named for Letitia Burnet Ryland, daughter of the first American civil governor of California, Peter Hardeman Burnett, and wife of San Jose councilman C.T. Ryland. Some have speculated that Peter Burnett’s election was . . . — — Map (db m52636) HM
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. . . . — — Map (db m3775) HM
This beautiful building was designed by Ralph Wyckoff to house San José’s Main Post Office. It was built as a W.P.A. project in 1933 and is a prime example of Depression-Era federal construction. The terra cotta work on the building’s exterior is . . . — — Map (db m30091) HM
This splendid structure was built in 1880 by Adolf Pfister, a prominent San Jose businessman who served three times as the city’s major. The building was added to twice in later years. A fine example of 19th century commercial architecture, it has . . . — — Map (db m52635) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m232982) HM
The Plaza de César E. E. Chávez is part of the original plaza of the 1797 Pueblo de San José and is the oldest continuously used public open space in the city. The plaza was the hub of the old Spanish settlement: the site of Juzgado and the . . . — — Map (db m30207) HM
[The Remembering Agriculture marker is composed of seven panels.][Panel 1]
Creation itself seemed to plan a garden where you now stand. This place came to be called “Valley of Heart’s Delight” because of its mild . . . — — Map (db m52670) HM
The Sainte Claire Club was organized in 1888 by a group of distinguished local citizens, including James Phelan, banker, U.S. Senator and former mayor of San Francisco. San Jose's oldest men's club has occupied this handsome structure since its . . . — — Map (db m30232) HM
The San José Academy was founded on this site in 1850, as Edward Bannister’s English and Classical School, and held it first graduation ceremony – the earliest in the state – in December, 1851. A private, non-sectarian preparatory school . . . — — Map (db m52638) HM
The San Jose Mercury News was first published, on this site, on June 20, 1851. Known as the San Jose Weekly Visitor, it was the city’s fist permanent newspaper. The paper changed owners and mastheads several times before becoming the San Jose Weekly . . . — — Map (db m52657) HM
Completed in 1867, this imposing building was constructed in the hope of attracting the State Legislature back to San José. It was designed by Levi Goodrich, a noted local architect. The original building was two-storied with a central dome. After . . . — — Map (db m30118) HM
Built as the Scottish Rite Temple in 1925-25, this distinguished structure was designed by architect Carl Werner. The entry portico, with its six Ionic columns and unusual Egyptian ornamentation, lends the buildings special grandeur. In 1981, the . . . — — Map (db m30285) HM
Pellier, native of France, and founder of California's prune industry, came to California in 1849.
In October 1850 he established a nursery called
"City Gardens" on this site. Here, aided by his brothers Pierre and Jean, he introduced the . . . — — Map (db m154468) HM
On this corner stood the Garden City Bank Building, where Charles D. Herrold established Station FN, the first radio broadcasting station in the world. As a pioneer in wireless telephony (radio), Herrold established the first station in 1909 to . . . — — Map (db m30327) HM
St. James Park and its environs were the heart of nineteenth century San Jose. While the Plaza has been the center of the older Hispanic settlement, St. James Park and its surrounding buildings reflect the aspirations of an emerging American city. . . . — — Map (db m52561) HM
St. Joseph’s was the first church of the Pueblo de San José. The original adobe structure was built on the present site in 1803. It was replaced by a second adobe in 1845, which in turn was replaced by a wooden building in 1869. After this . . . — — Map (db m30209) HM
In Memory of
The Burning of San Jose Chinatown
May 4, 1887
On this site on May 4, 1887 a mysterious fire, deliberately set, destroyed San Jose's Chinatown. This was the largest Chinatown South of San Francisco. A community of bachelors and . . . — — Map (db m26215) HM
With the vision of universal freedom
for all mankind
this tree is dedicated to
Lt. Col. Gordon L. Page
and all
Prisoners of War
and
Missing in Action — — Map (db m155050) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m30147) HM
The Palomar Ballroom was constructed on this site in 1946. Operating
under various names, it was an important venue for music and dance
lovers for almost 60 years. As the first racially integrated ballroom in
the city, it attracted big bands, . . . — — Map (db m155027) HM
This house was built by Thomas Fallon in 1854. A handsome, charismatic figure, Fallon was one of the early San José’s most prominent citizens: he captained the volunteer company that seized San José from the Mexicans, served in the California . . . — — Map (db m30692) HM
This Carpenter Gothic church was constructed in 1863 and is the oldest church building in San José. John W. Hammond, a sea captain and a member of the parish, built the structure to his own design. A simple rectangle with a steeply hipped roof, it . . . — — Map (db m30292) HM
Constructed in 1892 this was the first federal building in San José. It served as U.S. post office from 1892 to 1933. Designed by Willoughby Edbrooke and constructed of locally quarried sandstone, this Romanesque style structure, built by the United . . . — — Map (db m3611) HM
On this site in 1909, Charles D. Herrold founded a voice radio station which opened the door to electronic mass communication. He conceived the idea of broadcasting to the public, and his station, the world’s first, has now served Northern . . . — — Map (db m193571) HM
Jay Orley and Everis A. Hayes built this Mission Revival Style mansion, designed by George W. Page in 1904. The Hayes Brothers were early San Jose Mercury publishers, prominent valley politicians, and were actively involved in establishing the . . . — — Map (db m18496) HM
Panel One:
Why San Jose?
IBM first planted roots in California during World War II. In 1943, 43 IBM employees and their families relocated from the East Coast to San Jose to start IBM Card Manufacturing Plant Number 5. Little did they . . . — — Map (db m212703) HM
The Northern California Black Walnut trees seen along this highway owe their existence to horticulturist Horace G. Keesling of San José. While passing this way by camp wagon on a blistering summer day in 1900, Keesling could find no roadside tree . . . — — Map (db m52138) HM
12 miles ← [west]. From this cinnabar hill the Indians used pigment for paint. Mercury was mined, 1845. Gold discovery made mercury indispensable and the mine became the most productive in America, became world famous. It sold for . . . — — Map (db m2640) HM
Three-quarters of a mile northeast is Montgomery Hill, site of the 55 successful flights of the “aeroplane” of John Joseph Montgomery which demonstrated aerodynamic developments still indispensable to modern aircraft. Here the basic principles of . . . — — Map (db m7127) HM
Pioneer Evergreen settler Francis J. Smith built this home in 1874 on land originally part of the Chaboya Mexican Land Grant, Rancho Yerba Buena. The Village of Evergreen’s commercial center stood near this site, where in 1868, brothers Charles C. . . . — — Map (db m212756) HM
“Following indigenous American Indian occupation, this land was part of Spain and then Mexico. Under Mexican rule it was known as Rancho Yerba Buena de Socayre, a land grant deeded to Antonio Chaboya in 1833. It was the site of the historic . . . — — Map (db m54663) HM
From 1961 to 1980 the park that you are now standing in was home to a one-of-a-kind western themed amusement park called Frontier Village
The Entrance Forts
The main entrance was built to resemble the gates of an early western frontier . . . — — Map (db m58990) HM
Mary Hayes Chynoweth, matriarch of the Hayes family, built this 65 room, 41,000 square foot Mediterranean Revival-Style mansion to replace an earlier Victorian one which had been destroyed by fire. While she did not live to occupy the mansion . . . — — Map (db m58945) HM
Andrew Putnum Hill was an artist and photographer who used political advocacy to create a conservation legacy for future generations. His paintings and photographs exemplify his appreciation for both the natural and man-made environments but it was . . . — — Map (db m226875) HM
Edwin Markham and his mother moved into this house at 432 South Eighth Street in 1870 while he studied to become a teacher at San José Normal School, now known as San José State University. After graduation, he became a teacher and then a school . . . — — Map (db m226870) HM
The Vietnam War (1964-75) was America's longest war. For the Vietnamese, the war had begun in 1945 with the fight for independence from French colonial rule. In that struggle, the U.S. supported the French forces.
In 1975, South Vietnam's . . . — — Map (db m231601) HM
Seventh graders from Quimby Oak Middle School's Lobo School of Innovation (LSI) honor Lee's Sandwiches, the popular Vietnamese-American fast-food franchise specializing in banh mi sandwiches and other Vietnamese cuisine items.
Chieu Le (Lê . . . — — Map (db m226845) HM
Seventh graders from Quimby Oak Middle School's Lobo School of Innovation (LSI) pay tribute to Janet Gray Hayes, who shattered barriers by becoming the first woman elected mayor of San José in 1975.
Janet Gray was born in Rushville, Indiana. She . . . — — Map (db m226840) HM
This Memorial Memorial Wall honors the the great sacrifices of millions of citizens of the Republic of South Vietnam in defending liberty during the Vietnam War from 1950 to 1975.
Hundreds of thousands of military personnel, civilians, government . . . — — Map (db m226850) WM
Built c.1890s / Home of Paulson Family. Moved from Prevost near Auzerais and San Carlos. Will be used for meeting space, changing exhibits, and living history. — — Map (db m226802) HM
The original Ng Shing Gung was constructed in 1888 in Heinlenville, the last of five San Jose Chinatowns. Heinlenville was named after John Heinlen, a German immigrant, who helped the Chinese after the Market Street Chinatown fire in 1887. Ng Shing . . . — — Map (db m226790) HM
Electric trolleys were the main source of public transportation in San José between 1880 and 1938. These streetcars operated on nearly 130 miles of track throughout Santa Clara Valley. Automobiles were still too expensive to be widely owned, so many . . . — — Map (db m226785) HM
Farm, orchard, and cannery work in the Santa Clara Valley was seasonal. When a crop was ready to be harvested or processed in one of the Valley's many canneries, employers often supplemented their permanent workforce with workers hired on a . . . — — Map (db m231598) HM
During the 1800s, children in the nation's rural areas attended schools much like the Santa Ana School. Rural schools were located within five miles walking distance of their homes. This schoolhouse was completed in 1872 at a cost of $2000. Grades . . . — — Map (db m226857) HM
Hanford Lennox Gordon was born in 1846 and over his lifetime held a variety of positions as attorney, and officer for the Union Army during the Civil War, a farmer, and a rancher.
Hanford and his wife, Mary, moved to San José from Minnesota in . . . — — Map (db m227093) HM
The house is a unique two-story Prairie-style home,
designed and built by Addison M. Whiteside, the designer
of the landmark Ainsley house in Campbell. His work
influenced later styles of building in San José.
Mr. Bertram Slettedahl was the . . . — — Map (db m155028) HM
Here, on the 1,939-acre Rancho Potrero de Santa Clara, Christopher A. Shelton in early March 1853 introduced the honeybee to California. In Aspinwall, Panama, Shelton purchased 12 beehives from a New Yorker and transported them by rail, . . . — — Map (db m3627) HM
In 1882 Captain James A. Hamilton purchased 21 acres of orchards and built this Queen Anne farmhouse for his family. James A. Hamilton was born in 1826 in Portage City, Ohio, and he left home at the age of 18 to become a sailor. His first position . . . — — Map (db m52123) HM
This parcel, known as the Bernal Adobe Site, is part of the Rancho Santa Teresa Historic District of Santa Clara County. Ancestors of Mowekma Ohlone Indians used this area as a large permanent cemetery and village site as long ago as 3,000 years due . . . — — Map (db m52767) HM
Hailed as one of the best arranged and equipped livery stables on the coast, Dashaway Stables was constructed by Frederick Tennant and William Connell in 1888 at 130 South Second Street, San Jose. Dashaway Stables, proud of its excellent reputation . . . — — Map (db m52166) HM
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 of . . . — — Map (db m52175) HM
On a ranch, large barns were needed to house livestock, equipment and harvested crops. Inside this barn are cow and horse stalls along one wall, a wagon bay along the opposite wall, and a large center area once used for storing hay crops and . . . — — Map (db m219098) HM
Ygnacio Bernal began mining cinnabar (an ore from which mercury is extracted) in the Santa Teresa hills in 1896. Flasks of mercury were transported by wagon to the rail depot in New Almaden. Although the nearby Almaden Quicksilver mines proved to be . . . — — Map (db m219562) HM
In order to prepare each day’s meals, fresh fruits, vegetables and herbs were harvested from the garden. Different crops were grown throughout the year, and flowers were often planted to attract pollinating insects. Nothing from the garden was . . . — — Map (db m219089) HM
Before electric and gas-powered machinery, strong animals such as draft horses and oxen were used to clear and plow fields, pull wagons and turn mills. Ranchers kept a variety of other animals to provide the family with food, leather, wool and fat. . . . — — Map (db m219205) HM
During the later 1800s, the developing Santa Clara Valley demanded an increase in farm products. California settlements needed wheat and produce to feed growing Gold Rush populations. When the Transcontinental Railroad of 1869 linked the valley to . . . — — Map (db m219207) HM
This sketch depicts what the Bernal Hacienda may have looked like in the late 1820s. Visible are several adobe buildings, pens and corrals located in the area below the Santa Teresa Spring.
With an economy based on hides and tallow, a rancho . . . — — Map (db m219701) HM
Built around 1860, this ranch house served as home to descendants of the Bernal family for 120 years. Rufina Bernal (Granddaughter of Rancho Santa Teresa founder Jose Joaquin Bernal) and Carlos Gulnac married and raised their family here. Their . . . — — Map (db m219091) HM
The native Ohlone Indians lived here because of the spring’s never-ending flow. A retired Spanish soldier, Jose Joaquin Bernal, settled here and built his rancho to take advantage of the life-giving water in an often drought-ridden country.
For . . . — — Map (db m219564) HM
Believed to travel from the Sierra Mountains via underground rivers, fresh, maybe even magical, water continually seeps from this hillside formation of hard gray sandstone.
According to Hispanic folklore passed down orally and printed for . . . — — Map (db m219577) HM
Originally named Rancho Santa Teresa, this and neighboring properties were part of nearly 10,000 acres of land granted to Jose Joaquin Bernal by the Mexican government in 1834. Bernal’s descendants have continuously owned and lived on portions of . . . — — Map (db m218986) HM
Originally named Rancho Santa Teresa, this and neighboring properties were part of nearly 10,000 acres of land granted to Jose Joaquin Bernal by the Mexican government in 1834. Bernal’s descendants have continuously owned and lived on portions of . . . — — Map (db m219206) HM
On this site in 1852 Charles LeFranc made the first commercial planting of fine European wine grapes in Santa Clara County and founded Almadén Vineyards. LeFranc imported cuttings from vines in the celebrated wine districts of his native France, . . . — — Map (db m2580) HM
In 1904 San Jose native Amadeo Peter Giannini founded the Bank of Italy in San Francisco, which later became Bank of America in 1930. Revolutionizing the banking industry, Giannini was committed to helping previously underserved members of the . . . — — Map (db m182490) HM
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.” — — Map (db m52207) HM
Now a relic from the days when Monterey road served as cattle trail; stage route, and Mission road between San Francisco, Santa Clara, and Monterey, Coyote Post Office was once the oldest surviving and functioning post office in Santa Clara County . . . — — Map (db m42293) HM
Born in Pennsylvania, died in San Jose Dec. 8, 1850
A leader of the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy
Party of 1844
First American M.D. to settle in California
Served as physician, alcalde, and councilman in San Francisco before moving to a farm north . . . — — Map (db m52212) HM
The Bascoms arrived in San Jose in 1849. Their residence and boarding house, Slapjack Hall, was a center of activity and grandma sewed the famous blue tent used as both a school and first protestant church. Dr. Bascom practiced medicine but . . . — — Map (db m92727) HM
Doctor Henry Hulme Warburton was one of the first physicians in the Santa Clara Valley. Born in Staffordshire, England in 1819, he emigrated to the United States in 1844. Warburton was a surgeon aboard a whaling ship when it docked in San Francisco . . . — — Map (db m52165) HM
San Jose's Electric Light Tower was the inspiration of JJ. Owens, editor of the San Jose Mercury. On May 13, 1881, Owens printed an editorial suggesting that by providing one high and immense source of arc light, the night would become as day . . . — — Map (db m52140) HM
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, functioning . . . — — Map (db m52176) HM
[Front of Marker:]
DONNER
Here lies George Donner, Jr., a California Pioneer and a Donner Party survivor. He was born 10 August 1836 in Sangamon County, Illinois, the eldest son of Jacob Donner and Elizabeth Blue Hook. In April 1846 . . . — — Map (db m30305) HM
Welcome to the
Gordon House
Home of the Rotary Club of San Jose
Hanford Lennox Gordon was born in 1846 and over his lifetime held a variety of positions as attorney, and officer for the Union Army during the Civil War, a farmer, and . . . — — Map (db m52126) HM
