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The center offers public exhibits, lectures and workshops. Classes are given with De Anza College. The center's Stocklmeir Library and Archives features a collection of materials on California history and Santa Clara Valley's development, including student research papers, books, journals, oral histories, photographs, manuscripts, newsletters ...
The Sunnyvale Historical Society obtained its designation as a California State Historical Landmark in 1958. It was demolished by the city in 1961 due to extensive damage following a fire. The Sunnyvale Historical Museum was constructed as a replica of the Martin Murphy House, at Sunnyvale Heritage Park next to the Sunnyvale Community Center ...
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is the largest natural and historical museum in the western United States. [3] Its collections include nearly 35 million specimens and artifacts and cover 4.5 billion years of history. This large collection comprises not only of specimens for exhibition, but also vast research collections housed ...
Milestones: a history of Mountain View, California. California History Center & Foundation. ISBN 978-0-935089-27-1. "A look back: Timeline of Mountain View history", San Jose Mercury News, March 2007; Nicholas Perry; Kimberly Chan (2012). Mountain View. Then & Now. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-9576-4.
The California Historical Society ( CHS) is the official historical society of California. It was founded in 1871, by a group of prominent Californian intellectuals at Santa Clara University. [ 1][ 2] It was officially designated as the Californian state historical society in 1979. [ 3][ 4][ 5] Its headquarters are in San Francisco, though it ...
The Veterans Home of California is located in Yountville, California, and was founded in 1884. [1] [2] The facility is the largest of its kind in the United States and has a population of almost 800 aged and disabled veterans of World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, the War in Afghanistan, and Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom.
The Heritage Foundation continued to grow throughout the 1990s. The foundation's flagship journal, Policy Review, reached a circulation of 23,000. In 1993, Heritage was an opponent of the Clinton health care plan, which died in the U.S. Senate the following year, in August 1994.
The history of oil production in California began in the late 19th century. [ 1] In 1903, California became the leading oil-producing state in the US, and traded the number one position back-and forth with Oklahoma through the year 1930. [ 2] As of 2022, California produced 3% of the crude oil of the nation, behind Texas, New Mexico, North ...