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San Jose is a major city in California, USA, and the county seat of Santa Clara County. In the 1970s, the city council officially adopted San José as the spelling for the city name, although it is still more commonly spelled San Jose. The city is located at the south end of the San Francisco BayThe San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary in which water draining approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean. Technically, the Sacrame, within the informal boundaries of Silicon ValleySilicon Valley is a nickname for the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in northern California, USA. It encompasses the northern part of Santa Clara Valley and adjacent communities in the southern parts of the San Francisco Peninsula and East Bay. As of 20032003 is a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar), and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Summary Perhaps the defining global event of the year 2003 was the Invasion of Iraq launched by the U, it reported an estimated population of 925,000, making it the most populous city in Northern CaliforniaNorthern California (sometimes NorCal refers to the northern portion of the state of California, roughly covering all of those counties except for the eight counties which make up Southern California. Northern California includes the region's largest city and third in the state after Los AngelesThis article is about the city in California. For other uses of 'Los Angeles' see Los Angeles (disambiguation The City of Los Angeles widely known by its abbreviation L. is a large coastal metropolis in Southern California in the western United States. and San DiegoSan Diego is a city located in the southwestern corner of the state of California (and thus in the southwestern corner of the continental United States). It is the county seat of San Diego County, California. The city is noted for its temperate climate an; reports have said that San Jose will overtake Detroit as the United States' tenth most populous city in a few years; it is currently eleventh.

1 History

For thousands of years before the arrival of EuropeFor the band of the same name, see Europe (band . Europe is a continent forming the westermost part of the Eurasian supercontinent. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Sean settlers, the area now known as San Jose was inhabited by several groups of Ohlone Native Americans.

El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe was founded by José Joaquin Moraga on November 29, 1777, the first settlement not associated with a mission or a military post in Alta California. (The nearest mission, Mission Santa Clara de Asis, was founded earlier in 1777, three miles from the original pueblo site in neighboring Santa Clara. Mission San José de Guadalupe wasn't founded until 1797, about 20 miles north of San Jose in what is now Fremont). The town was founded 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 1797, the pueblo was moved from its original location, near the present-day intersection of Guadalupe Parkway and Taylor Street, to a location in what is now Downtown San Jose, surrounding Pueblo Plaza (now Plaza de Céasar Chávez ).

During the Bear Flag Revolt, Captain Thomas Fallon led a small force from Santa Cruz and captured the pueblo without bloodshed on July 11, 1846. Fallon received an American flag from John D. Sloat, and raised it over the pueblo on July 14, as the California Republic agreed to join the United States following the start of the Mexican-American War. Fallon would later become the seventh mayor of San Jose.

On March 27, 1850, San Jose became the first incorporated city in the U.S. state of California. It also served as the state's first capital with the first and second sessions of the California Legislature being held there in 1850 and 1851.

For nearly two centuries a farming community, San Jose produced a significant amount of fruits and vegetables until the 1960s, and many past and current names of teams, streets, buildings, and so on reflect its agricultural beginnings. Prunes were one of the largest crops, and this dried fruit's name commonly appears.

During the California Gold Rush period, the New Almaden Mines just south of the city were the largest mercury mines in North America (mercury was used to help separate gold from ore). The importance of the mercury industry at the time explains why the local newspaper was named the Mercury News.

Following Hamann's retirement, antigrowth city councils came to power, cemented in the 1971 election of Norman Mineta as mayor. Under Mineta, the city adopted the "General Plan" that restricted development of land inside the incorporated area of San Jose and banned development in an additional 200 mi² east and south of the city, an area known as San Jose's sphere of influence. To the west, communities such as Campbell and Cupertino had incorporated as cities to avoid being annexed to San Jose, while expansion to the north was impossible because of San Francisco Bay. The result was that there was no land available to build housing. The plan's goal was to bring population growth down to a more manageable level.

However, with the boom of the electronics industry, specifically personal computers and integrated circuits, San Jose and the surrounding areas' population continued growing rapidly. By 1980, the city's population was 630,000; it reached 782,000 by 1990; and 894,943 by 2000—at which point Santa Clara County as a whole had 1,682,585 residents. However, the city council passed another General Plan in 1994 with the original 1974 urban growth boundaries intact. As a result, housing costs in San Jose and the rest of the Bay Area rose faster than the national average in the 1980s and 1990s, with San Jose's housing cost increasing by 936 percent between 1976 and 2001, the fastest growth in the nation over that time. The average 2003 home price in Santa Clara County was approximately 330 percent of the national average.

Many people's view of San Jose is still formed by the Dionne Warwick hit from the 1960s, "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?", which states that "there's a lot of space in San Jose; there'll be a place where I can stay", says that "I may go wrong and lose my way," and contrasts it to Los Angeles, "a great big freeway". In 1960, the population of San Jose was only 204,000, just over a fifth of the 2003 population; the only freeway through or near San Jose was U.S. Highway 101, which touched only the outermost edges of the city and was still a rural route or controlled by traffic lights in some areas; and a large portion of the Santa Clara Valley still contained commercial orchards.

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