The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The Santa Clara Valley was heavily populated by the indigenous Ohlone people when the Spanish first arrived in the 1770s. After the Spaniards arrived, smallpox, measles, and other Old World diseases greatly reduced the Ohlone population. Many the Ohlone Native Americans who did not die of these diseases were forced into Christian faith by the Spanish. In 1777, Franciscan missionary Padre Junipero Serra founded Mission Santa Clara in San Jose (near what is now the San Jose International Airport runway).
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Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (5). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.