San Jose

San Jose is located in the Santa Clara Valley which extends to the southeast from San Francisco Bay. Long before Europeans arrived in California, thousands of Native Americans lived along the coastal lands from San Francisco to Big Sur. In 1776, Captain Juan Bautista de Anza founded El Pueblo de San Jose de Guadalupe on November 29, 1777 it was the first town in the Spanish colony Nueva California. Its name is derived from Saint Joseph, patron saint of pioneers and travelers, and from the Guadalupe River.

California became a possession of the United States at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 with the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Throughout the late 1800s and into the first half of the 20th century, San Jose, like the rest of Santa Clara Valley, grew on agriculture, producing orchard fruits, berries, tree nuts, and vegetables, as well as packaging, canning, and shipping it.
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