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PALO ALTO

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 655 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PAI-PAS
PALO ALTO , a city of Santa Clara county,
California
 , U.S.A., between two of the
coast
  ranges, about 28 m. S. of San Francisco,
and about 18 m. from the sea. Pop. (1910) 4486. It is served by the
coast
  division of the Southern Pacific railway, and is the railway station for
Leland
  Stanford Jr. University (q.v.), which is about 1 m.
south
 -west of the city. At Menlo Park is St
Patrick
 's Theological
Seminary
  (Roman Catholic). By all real estate deeds the sale of intoxicating liquors is for ever prohibited in the city; and an act of the state legislature in 1909 prohibited the sale of intoxicating liquor within 12 m. of the grounds of the university. The name (Sp. " tall tree ") was derived from a solitary redwood-tree
standing
  in the outskirts of the city. Palo Alto was laid out in 1891, but had no real existence before 1893. It was incorporated as a town in 1894, having previously been a
part
  of Mayfield township; in 1909 it was chartered as a city. Palo Alto suffered severely in the
earthquake
  of 1906.


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