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No. of interments. >40,000. Website. Official website. Find a Grave. Oak Hill Memorial Park. Oak Hill Memorial Park is a cemetery in San Jose, California, United States. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest secular cemetery in California. [1] Oak Hill is the northernmost hill in the San Juan Bautista Hills of South San Jose.
Coordinates: 37.2835°N 121.8121°W. Hellyer County Park [1] is one of 28 [2] Santa Clara County Parks. The park is located just off of Highway 101 in San Jose, California, United States. The 178-acre (72 ha) park is home to Hellyer Park Velodrome and Cottonwood Lake. Other recreational opportunities at the park include picnicking, hiking ...
1654952, 2411790. Website. 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 ...
County. Santa Clara. City. San Jose. Elevation. 115 ft (35 m) Willow Glen is a district of San Jose, California, in Santa Clara County. Willow Glen is known for its historic downtown, dining and shopping, and is one of the most expensive neighborhoods to live in San Jose. [1] Willow Glen was originally an independent town, until it voted to be ...
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.
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. 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, alongside San Francisco's Japantown and Los Angeles's ...
November 27, 1979. St. James Park is a 6.8-acre (2.8 ha) park in downtown San Jose, California. Originally laid out as St. James Square in 1848, local newspapers dubbed the site a park in 1885, shortly after a fountain was installed in the center of the area. In 1933, two men who were accused of kidnapping and murdering Brooke Hart were lynched ...