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  2. San Jose, California - Wikipedia

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    sanjoseca.gov. San Jose, officially the City of San José ( Spanish for ' Saint Joseph ' [14] / ˌsæn hoʊˈzeɪ, - ˈseɪ / SAN hoh-ZAY, -⁠SAY; Spanish: [saŋ xoˈse] ), [15] is the largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2022 population of 971,233, [9] it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and ...

  3. History of San Jose, California - Wikipedia

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    Mission San José was not founded until 1797, about 20 miles (30 km) north of San Jose in what is now Fremont .) The town was founded by the colonists led to California by Anza, as a farming community to provide food for the presidios of San Francisco and Monterey. In 1778, the pueblo had a population of 68.

  4. Santa Clara County, California - Wikipedia

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    Website. santaclaracounty .gov. Santa Clara County, officially the County of Santa Clara, is the sixth-most populous county in the U.S. state of California, with a population of 1,936,259 as of the 2020 census. [4] Santa Clara County and neighboring San Benito County form the San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara metropolitan statistical area ...

  5. Timeline of San Jose, California - Wikipedia

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    Janet Gray Hayes becomes mayor. [34] 1977 – San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles founded. 1980 – Rotary Club of San Jose and San Jose Repertory Theatre founded. 1981 – Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose established. 1982 – Adobe in business. [35] 1983. 1983 San Jose School District California bankruptcy.

  6. Downtown San Jose - Wikipedia

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    Downtown San Jose is a major tech cluster of Silicon Valley. It is home to Adobe World Headquarters, Zoom HQ, BEA Systems HQ, and numerous facilities and offices of major tech companies, including Amazon Lab126 and Google. The San Francisco Bay Area 's largest news organization, The Mercury News, is headquartered on St. James Park.

  7. Mayor of San Jose - Wikipedia

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    Mayor of the City of San José. , is executive of the. Government of the City of San Jose. , California. in the United States. The mayor presides over the San Jose City Council, which is composed of 11 voting members, including the mayor. While the mayor is the head of the city council, they have no veto powers over legislation passed by the ...

  8. Japantown, San Jose - Wikipedia

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    Japantown ( Japanese: 日本町; Nihonmachi ), commonly known as J Town, is a historic cultural district of San Jose, California, north of Downtown San Jose. [1] [2] Historically a center for San Jose's Japanese American and Chinese American communities, San Jose's Japantown is one of only three Japantowns that still exist in the United States ...

  9. Downtown Historic District (San Jose, California) - Wikipedia

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    NRHP reference No. 83003822 [1] Added to NRHP. May 26, 1983. The Downtown Historic District of San Jose, California is a designated U.S. Historic District area of the city roughly the size of one square block. It is bounded by S. First Street to the west, E. San Fernando Street to the south, S.