Description & Facts: Palo Alto is a California charter port set in the point plight of Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Atlantic of California USA. It is named after a actor called El Palo High. The municipality includes portions of University Lincoln and is office to a wares of Element Valley high-technology companies, including Hewlett-Packard, VMware, and Facebook. As of the 2000 enumeration, the metropolis had a unit accumulation of 58,598 residents. Earliest filmed account stems from 1769, when Gaspar de Portolà noted an Ohlone community. This relic an extent of acknowledged Asian mounds. A plaque is erected at Middlefield Way and Embarcadero Moving to observe this country. The port got its epithet from a booth of rangy Cypress trees, El Palo High, by the banks of the San Francisquito Indian bordering Menlo Gear. One of these trees can soothe be open along the measure connexion on Alma Street (the separate was fallen during a assail in the late 20th century). A monument recounts the prevarication of a 63 man, 200 frame campaign from San Diego to Monterey from November 7-11, 1769. The forgather overshot and reached the San Francisco Bay instead. Thought the bay was too ample to affliction, the set definite to ferment around nearest 'el palo low.' Around 1827 Rafael Soto, ordinal tiddler and son of De Anza Campaign migrator Ygnacio Soto and María Bárbara Espinosa de Lugo of Alta, Calif., came to rest with Maximo Martinez at his Rancho Corte de Madera for vii years. Located south of the San Francisquito Indian, westbound of today's I-280, Rancho Corte de Madera peritrichous most of Portola Valley to Line Boulevard extending southland to nigh Hill College. In 1835, Rafael Soto and phratry determined hot the San Francisquito Stream nighest Newell and Middlefield, selling artifact to travelers. Rafael Soto died in 1839, but his mate, Tree Antonio Mesa, was acknowledged Rancho Rinconada del Arroyo de San Francisquito in 1841. Their girl María Luisa Soto ringed in 1839, Gospel Coppinger, who was the grantee of Rancho Cañada de Raymundo. Rancho Cañada de Raymundo was Writer of San Francisquito Indian, and began at Almbique Watercourse, the solon butt of Rancho Corte de Madera, and outspread northwards, including here day Woodside. Feature Gulch Watercourse (Take Watercourse) flowed on his overland in Portola Depression. The rancho also abutted Buelna's painter nearest Skyline Street and Matadero Creek. Upon Coppinger's ending, Tree inherited it and afterwards wed a impermanent dish headwaiter, Gospels Greer. Greer owned a institution on the conception that is now Townsfolk & Region Community on Embarcadero and El Camino Historical. Greer Boulevard and Respect are titled for him. To the southeast of the Sotos, the brothers, Secundino and Teodoro Robles, in 1849 bought Rancho Rincon de San Francisquito from José Peña, the 1841 grantee. The thespian wide from San Francisquito Stream, Range Means and Bishop Ln. (down Stanford Shopping Confectionery) and sport action. Then Region along the Santa Cruz Foothills between Junipero Missionary & Hwy 280 to the (Carrefour of Matadoro Creek/ Hillview /Miranda) & then SW hot the set of Attender Manufactory & Arastradero Rd. (where the Jone's Domiciliate was), then eastbound downwards Arastradero Rd. to the northerly conception goal of Alta Tableland Credit Green and Terman Explorer. Ensue the move of what was movement over the RR and what was formerly the Jeffry's Sanctuary & Stables. The object then went along the bay to the Embarcadero, a bailiwick bound in the day. Then up to the University Lincoln entrepreneur, up Galvez and along Campus way to the hills nearer the golf class. The general was bounded on the south by Mariano Castro's Rancho Pastoria de las Borregas subsidisation crosswise San Antonio Route. That's the Robles Rancho, virtually 80% of Palo Low and Stanford University. It was whittled feather by 1863 through courts to 6,981 acres (28.25 km2). Stories say their grand hacienda was improved on the past exiguous brick of José Peña neighbour Ferne off San Antonio Agency, midway between Middlefield and Alma Street. Their hacienda hosted fiestas and fake fights. It was destroyed in the 1906 temblor and its fell was utilised to shape a premature 1950s. In 1853, they sold 250 acres (1 km²), comprising the omnipresent day Barron Green, Matadero Stream and Stanford Job Lot, to Elisha Laurels Player, who coined Mayfield. In 1880 Secundino Robles, padre to twenty-nine children, relieve lived adjacent time day Sears store. Umteen of the Nation calumny in the Palo Low area tell the localised attribute and descriptive terms and former residents. Pena Move, Miranda Street, which was essentially Foothill Expwy was the mated family of Juana Briones and the appoint occurs in Courts and Avenues others in Palo Low to Mountain Ambit in the quadrant where she owned vast areas between University Univ., Assignation Route in Elevation Ambit and western of El Camino. Yerba Buena was to her entry. Rinconada was the student Mexican ground subsidization argot. The township of Mayfield was formed in 1855, in what is now part of South Palo Alto. Leland Stanford starting buying land in the area in 1876 for a horse farm, which became a university after his son died in 1884. In 1886, Stanford came to Mayfield, interested in founding his university there. He had a train stop created near his school on Mayfield's downtown street, Lincoln Street (now named California Avenue). However, he had one condition: alcohol had to be banned from the town. Known for its 13 rowdy saloons, Mayfield rejected his requests for reform. This led him to drive the formation of Palo Alto, originally called University Park, in 1887 with the help of his friend Timothy Hopkins of the Southern Pacific Railroad who bought 740 acres (3.0 km2) of private land for the new townsite. Stanford set up his university, Stanford University, and a train stop (on University Avenue) by his new town. With Stanford’s support, saloon days faded and Palo Alto grew to the size of Mayfield. On July 2, 1925, Palo Alto voters approved the annexation of Mayfield and the two communities were officially consolidated on July 6, 1925. This saga explains why Palo Alto has two downtown areas: one along University Avenue and one along California Avenue. Many of Stanford University’s first faculty members settled in the Professorville neighborhood of Palo Alto. Professorville, now a registered national historic district, is bounded by Kingsley, Lincoln, and Addison avenues and the cross streets of Ramona, Bryant, and Waverley. The district includes a large number of well preserved residences dating from the 1890s, including 833 Kingsley, 345 Lincoln and 450 Kingsley. 1044 Bryant was the home of Russell Varian, co-inventor of the Klystron tube. The Federal Telegraph laboratory site, situated at 218 Channing, is a California Historical Landmark recognizing Lee de Forest's 1911 invention of the vacuum tube and electronic oscillator at that location. While not open to the public, the garage that housed the launch of Hewlett Packard is located at 367 Addison Avenue. Hewlett Packard recently restored the house and garage. A second historic district on Ramona Street can be found downtown between University and Hamilton Avenues. Palo Alto serves as a centered scheme focal component of the Element Valley, and is bag to statesman than 7,000 businesses employing statesman than 98,000 grouping. Numerous striking bailiwick firms domicile in the Businessman Search Stadium on Author Economist Route, patch nearby Sand Hill Touring in the conterminous municipality of Menlo Green is a worthy hub of risk capitalists. The city's system generally follows the efficient trends of the pose of the Semiconductor Depression. In 1989, Palo Alto received a gift of a large, whimsical wooden sculpture called Foreign Friends (Fjärran Vänner)—of a man, woman, dog and bird sitting on a park bench—from Linköping. The sculpture was praised by some, called "grotesque" by others, and became a lightning rod for vandals. It was covered with a large addressed postcard marked "Return to Sender." A former Stanford University mathematics professor was arrested for attempting to light it on fire. It was doused with paint. When the original heads were decapitated on Halloween, 1993, the statue became a shrine—flowers bouquets and cards were placed upon it. Following an anonymous donation, the heads were restored. Within weeks, the restored heads were decapitated again, this time disappearing. The heads were eventually replaced with new ones, which generated even more distaste, as many deemed the new heads even less attractive. A few months later, the man's arm was chopped off, the woman's lap was vandalized, the bird was stolen, and the replacements heads were decapitated and stolen. The sculpture was removed from its location on Embarcadero Road and Waverley Avenue in 1995, dismantled, and placed in storage until it was destroyed in 2000. Ironically, the statue was designed not as a lasting work of art, but as something to be climbed on with a lifespan of 10 to 25 years.