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Palo Alto

Place Type
inhabited place
Description
Located on W shore of San Francisco Bay; name means "tall tree" and town was named after Senator Leland Standford's Palo Alto farm; site of Stanford University (1891) and related research-oriented industries.
Authority
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Source
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);

Died

Frank Lobdell (American, 1921-2013)

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