Please wait.
loading...
Wikipedia The University of the Pacific (also referred to as Pacific or UOP) is a private university in Stockton, California. It is the oldest chartered university in California, the first independent co-educational campus in California, and both the first conservatory of music and first medical school on the West Coast. It was first chartered on July 10, 1851, in Santa Clara, California, un...
Wikipedia Santa Clara University (also referred to as Santa Clara) is a private non-profit Jesuit university located in Santa Clara, California. It has 5,435 full-time undergraduate students, and 3,335 graduate students. Founded in 1851, Santa Clara University is the oldest operating institution of higher learning in California and has remained in its original location for 164 years. The univer...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in the city of Santa Clara, California. Official Website Wikipedia History The Tamien tribe of the Ohlone nation of Indigenous Californians have inhabited the area for thousands of years. Spanish Period The first European to visit the valley was José Francisco Ortega in 1769. The Spanish began to colonize California with 21 miss...
Mission City Memorial Park resides in Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California. Also known as Santa Clara Cemetery and Santa Clara City Cemetery, this large burying ground contains interments from the 1840s through to the present. The cemetery is active. "The 30-acre all-faith cemetery is one of only a few municipal owned and operated cemeteries in California. The first records at the cemetery are...
The first Christian cemetery in the Santa Clara Valley was founded by the same Franciscan Padres who founded Mission Santa Clara de Asis in 1777. By 1851, when Santa Clara College was founded, the Jesuit Fathers realized that the old cemetery near the Mission was filled. The new site they selected was within a few minutes' walk from the Mission and was located near the small Adobe home of Don ...