Reading notes from August 2019.
Read more about : "This is San Jose Calling".
San Jose mural - unknown artist
May 2025
photo NMoroney
San Jose Reflections: An Illustrated History of San Jose, California and some Surrounding Areas
Edith Brockway
Academy Press
Campbell, California
(1977)
[1908]
F869 .S394 .B76
26 - "When Father Duran first came to the mission, Count Rezanof of Fort Ross sailed
down the bay seeking supplies for the starving colonists in Sitka, Alaska and visited
the mission. The padres furnished him corn, flour and beef in exchange for cloth. A
fiesta was given in honor of the group before they left."
35 - "Travel in and out of San Jose in the late 1700's followed the dusty, often
obscure, trail of El Camino Real - the King's Highway - which stretched from San Diego
to San Francisco. It linked twenty-one missions by a day's travel on horseback between missions."
49 - "During the war with Mexico, from 1846 to 1849, California was under the military
governorship of American commodores and generals."
80 - "In 1895, Federal Judge Hoffman approved the early Spanish boundaries which meant
that the squatters would have to either move off the land or buy it. Land outside
the rancho borders was open for purchase but those who had been living within the
early boundaries, had purchased it years ago, now had to buy it again."
5 - bicentennial of city of San Jose -> 1977
9 - Americano culture
13 - Ohlone Indians
13 - Costanoan stock (and language dialect)
13 - conical huts
14 - temescal - sweat house
15 - estimated 5,000 Ohlone in the valley when Spaniards arrived
15 - early 1800's - 7,324 natives baptized
16 - 1842 - 400 Ohlone at the Mission and in 1848 there were 0
17 - 1769 - Portola expedition
18 - 1830's - secularization of the missions
19 - Juan Bautistia de Anza - 1777 mission at Santa Clara
21 - San Jose - pueblo in 1777
21 - San Jose de Guadalupe - Nov 29, 1777
23 - winter rains - flooding in 1779
24 - earthquakes of 1812 and 1815
25 - 1797 - Mission San Jose de Guadalupe
29 - 1801 - Guadalupe River is agreed as the boundary between mission and pueblo
30 - 1798 - first juzgado or courthouse built on Market Street
31 - 1821 - Mexico independent of Spain
31 - 1825 - people of San Jose meet in plaza to take an oath of allegiance to Mexican government
33 - vaqueros or cowboys
34 - population of 125 in 1800 and 240 in 1863
34 - house of Louis Maria Peralta
35 - the Alameda - early road
39 - 1803 - St. Joseph's church begun, rebuilt 1818 and 1877
41 - 1846 - Americans claim California
49 - 1849 - San Jose is briefly the first capital of California
50 - 1850 - California becomes a US state
55 - 1850 - San Jose incorporated as US city
60 - Huan and Whisman San Jose-San Francisco stage coach line
45 miles in 9 hours, fare is 2 ounces of gold or $32
65 - 1866 - San Jose Water Company
69 - San Jose library
74 - 1875 - First Congregationists
86 - New Alameda Mines - quicksilver or mercury (used during gold mining)
89 - Captain Elisha Stevens - arrive 1849, plant 4 acres of mission grapes
96 - 1877 - work begins on the Lick Observatory at the top of Mount Hamilton
103 - 1855 - Santa Clara College - in 1912 name changed to University of Santa Clara
110 - Live Oak Park, Alum Rock Park
110 - volcanic monolith (200 ft) - Indian name "shestuc"
114 - 1900- San Jose had over 100 miles of track, for street transportation
116 - 1881 - a 237 foot tower with six 4000 candlepower arc lamps
barely lit the area around it
117 - 1905 - Pacific Gas and Electric Company - merger of San Jose Lighting Co. and others
119 - 1869 - San Jose and Oakland connected by rail
123 - 1851 - French Hotel - center of gambling activity
124 - 1889 - Vendrome
132 - Blossum Festivals - early 1900's
133 - Battle of the Blossums
134 - Earthquake of 1906 - 16 died, $3,000,000 of damages
137 - Santa Clara county send 300 soldiers to WW I
138 - 1909 - Charles Herrald begins radio broadcasts in San Jose
(using water-cooled microphone) : "This is San Jose calling"
142 - John Montgomery - 1883 - Glider with 12 ft wings
fly 600 feet at a site overlooking Otay valley
142 - 1905 - glider flown after being released from hot air balloon
at 4000 feet - flown by Daniel Maloney. Thousands watch from Race Street.
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