Palo Alto

The city is located between San Francisco and San Jose ( 53 kilometers south-east of San Francisco and 28 km north-west of San Jose); 188 km southwest of the state capital Sacramento .

Hydrography

Palo Alto is crossed by several streams that flow northward to San Francisco , on the eastern border runs Adobe Creek, San Franciscito Creek on the western border, and Matadero Creek between the other two. The Arastradero Creek is a tributary of the Matadero Creek, and the Barron Creek flows into the bypass channel from the Adobe Creek to the south of Highway 101. The main stream of the San Francisito Creek is formed by the confluence of the Corte Madera Creek and the Bear Creek , slightly below the Searsville Dam . Downstream, the Los Trancos Creek is a tributary of the San Franciscito, flowing south of the Interstate 280 .

Early information about Palo Alto dates back to 1769, when Gaspard de Portola found the town of Oloni in these places.

The city got its name from the local attraction - the high sequoia El Palo Alto , which is still growing on the east bank of the San Franciscio creek opposite Menlo Park .

In 1827, Raphael Soto, the tenth child and son of the participants of the expedition of Anza Ignacio Soto and Maria Barbara de Espinosa Lugo Alta, came to these places and settled in his Rancho Corte de Madera with Maximo Martinez, with whom he lived for seven years. Located south of San Franciscito Creek, west of today's I-280 , Rancho de Madera Corte covers most of the Portola Valley , expanding along the California State Route 35 southward to Foothill College . In 1835, Rafael Soto and his family settled near the San Franciscito creek near Newell and Middlefield to sell here goods for travelers. Rafael Soto died in 1839, but his wife, Maria Antonia Mesé, was granted ownership of Rancho Rinconada del Arroyo de San Franciscito in 1841.

In 1839, her daughter Maria Louise Soto married John Coppinger, who was the owner of Rancho Cañada de Raimundo . Cañada de Raimundo ranch was located west of the San Franciscito creek, and, starting at Alambique Creek , the northern border of Rancho Corte de Madera, expanded to the north, including Woodside . After Coppinger's death, Maria inherited him and later married the boat captain, John Greer. Greer owned a house where the Town & Country Village is currently located in Embarcadero and El Camino Real . Greer Avenue and the court were named after Greer. San Franciscito Ranch was founded in 1839 by Antonio Bueln and his wife Maria Concepcion.

Leland Stanford began buying land in the area in 1876 for a horse farm. In 1878, on his farm Palo Alto and on his behalf, the British pioneer of photography, Edward Maybridge, produced a series of “automatic” photographs depicting the movement of a horse, considered an important stage in the development of cinema (see “ Sally Gardner at a gallop ”) ^{[6] [7 ] ]} . Stanford bought the Ayrshire farm in 1882. ^[8] Jane and Leland Stanford founded Stanford University in 1891 in memory of his son, who died of typhoid fever at the age of 15 in 1884. In 1886, Stanford came to Mayfield, interested in setting up his university. He had one condition: alcohol had to leave the city. Known for his riotous saloons (there were 13 of them), Mayfield rejected his requests for reform. This led him to forced the establishment of a sobriety society in Palo Alto in 1894, in the formation of which was helped by his friend Timothy Hopkins, head of the South Pacific Railway, who bought 740 acres (3.0 km²) of private land in 1887 to create a site for cities . This place was proclaimed a local heritage in 1994 (in the century Palo Alto). Stanford created its own university, Stanford University, and train stops (on University Avenue ) in its newly created city. With Stanford’s support, Palo Alto grew to Mayfield. On July 2, 1925, Palo Alto approved Mayfield’s vote by voting. and two communities on July 6, 1925. This event explains why Palo Alto has two downtown areas : one along University Avenue and one along California Avenue.

Schools and school systems

• Gunn high school
• Palo Alto High School
• Los Altos School District
• Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District
• Castilleja school
• International School of the Peninsula
• Kehillah Jewish High School

Universities and colleges

• Stanford University

• is a 2007 independent film, shot in Palo Alto by three local residents.
• " Palo Alto " - a feature film in 2013, based on the eponymous collection of short stories by James Franco .
• “Palo Alto” ​​is a composition recorded by the British group Radiohead in 1997.
• The city is mentioned in the Vacation story of Ray Bradbury

Palo Alto has six twin brothers ^[9] :

•   Albi , France
•   Linköping , Sweden
•   Oaxaca , Mexico
•   Palo, Philippines
•   Enschede , the Netherlands
•   Tsuchiura , Japan

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