Origins of street names in San Jose, California
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Origins of street names in San Jose, California
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- Berryessa family: Berryessa Road
- Julian Hanks: Julian Street (located in downtown San Jose)
- Charles White: White Road
- James Frazier Reed: Reed Street
- wife Margaret: Margaret Street
- daughter Virginia: Virginia Street
- daughter Marthe: Martha Street
- mother-in-law Keyes: Keyes Street
- Bestor, surveyor who made subdivisions of Reed reservation: Bestor Street
- Charles Lefranc: Le Franc Drive
- Antoine Delmas: Delmas Avenue (downtown San Jose)
- Lewis Hazelton Bascom: Bascom Avenue
- Henry Morris Naglee: Naglee Avenue
- Samuel Hensley: Hensley Street
- Thomas Gion: Gion Avenue
- Commodore Robert Stockton: Stockton Avenue
- Theodore Lenzen, architect: Lenzen Avenue
- Race Street and Park: named after Agricultural Park and racetrack within.
- Steve Wozniak: Woz Way
- Muller Family who owned Lou's Village: Muller Place
- Morse Street - Named after Santa Clara resident C.C. Morse who founded the "Ferry-Morse" seed company in 1884
- [University Street - Named for the street that was the main entrance to the University of the Pacific (before it moved to Stockton, California and purchased for Bellarmine College Prep High School). San Jose State keeps their president's home on this street as well.
References
- Marjorie Pierce "San Jose and Its Cathedral" ISBN 0-934136-47-5
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