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San Jose was briefly California's first state capital, and legislators met in the city from 1849 to 1851. (Monterey was the capital during the period of Spanish California and Mexican California). [65]
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.
In 1850, San Jose incorporated to become California's first city and the location of California's first state capitol. Despite widespread destruction caused by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake , a number of neighborhoods around Downtown San Jose still retain their original, pre-1906 housing stock.
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, which is part of the larger San ...
Pat Tillman, pro football player and decorated Army Ranger, born in San Jose. Debi Thomas, Olympic figure skater, grew up in San Jose. Loren Toews, pro football player. Yosh Uchida, businessman, educator, contributor to San Jose State judo team, born in San Jose. Cain Velasquez, MMA fighter.
San José Mineta International Airport (IATA: SJC, ICAO: KSJC, FAA LID: SJC) — officially Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport [5] — is a city-owned public airport in San Jose, California. Located 3 mi (4.8 km) northwest of Downtown San Jose, the airport serves both the city and the Santa Clara Valley region of the greater Bay Area.