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Palo Alto, California

Santa Clara County · Population 68,572 · Card no. 10286

A Peninsula city built around Stanford University, and the cradle of Silicon Valley.

Hewlett and Packard started in a garage on Addison Avenue in 1939, now a landmark.
The name means tall tree, for a redwood beside San Francisquito Creek.
Stanford was founded in 1885 in memory of the founders' son.

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