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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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PALO

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

Palo Alto suffered severely in the

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earthquake of 1906 .

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