Download or read book History of Santa Clara County written by Eugene T. Sawyer and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2017 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no county in California so rich in material, romantic, progressive and adventurous, as the County of Santa Clara. It absorbs about the whole of the Santa Clara Valley, rightly proclaimed the richest valley in the state, and in respect of size, the richest in the world. It is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay and the county, itself, embraces 1304 square miles. This book tells the story of this exceedingly beautiful piece of earth from the first settlements to the early 20th century.