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San Jose

Place Type
inhabited place
Description
Located in Santa Clara Valley; became trade depot for local crops & mining equipment; site of 1st state legislative assembly in 1849; manufactures wine, electronics, aerospace equipment & auto parts; site of California State University, San Jose (1857).
Authority
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Source
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);

Born

David Pace (American, born 1951)

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