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PALO ALTO

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 655 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALTO , a See also:city of See also:Santa See also:Clara See also:county, See also:California, U.S.A., between two of the See also:coast ranges, about 28 m. S. of See also:San Francisco, and about 18 m. from the See also:sea. Pop. (1910) 4486. It is served by the coast See also:division of the See also:Southern Pacific railway, and is the railway station for See also:Leland See also:Stanford Jr. University (q.v.), which is about 1 m. See also:south-See also:west of the city. At Menlo See also:Park is St See also:Patrick's Theological See also:Seminary (See also:Roman See also:Catholic). By all real See also:estate deeds the See also:sale of intoxicating liquors is for ever prohibited in the city; and an See also:act of the See also:state legislature in 1909 prohibited the sale of intoxicating liquor within 12 m. of the grounds of the university. The name (Sp. " tall See also:tree ") was derived from a solitary redwood-tree See also: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 See also:town in 1894, having previously been a See also:part of Mayfield township; in 1909 it was chartered as a city.

Palo Alto suffered severely in the See also:

earthquake of 1906.

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