Woodside, California
San Mateo County
06-86440
Woodside is a town with about 5,000 inhabitants in Santa Clara Valley ( Silicon Valley ), 18 km south of San Francisco and 22 km north of San Jose, and about 550 km north- west of Los Angeles in California, USA, located. Woodside is part of San Mateo County and is located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The city covers an area of approximately 18 km ², of which the majority of undeveloped and is covered with coast redwood trees. Neighboring cities and towns include, without limitation Redwood City, Palo Alto, Stanford and Menlo Park.
The climate is very mild and due to its proximity to the Pacific, the temperature fluctuations are only moderately. The seasons are therefore less pronounced, they could also just join forces in a rainy and dry season. The average annual temperature is 15 ° C (10 ° C in the rainy season and 20 ° C in the dry season). The maximum temperature at Christmas was measured at 41 ° C. The average annual rainfall is about 400 mm, with 95 % of the rainfall in the period October to April are registered.
The place was known mainly by the Silicon Valley greats who have settled in the last two decades. To live here, for example, Larry Ellison, CEO and founder of Oracle and Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, who is mainly known as formulated by him Moore's Law. Even Neil Young and Joan Baez are here at home.
History
Long before the Europeans came to explore this area of California and settle, this was home to the Ohlone - Costanoan and Indians. Along the streams and wooded valleys, the fresh water of the mountains, the mild climate and the nearby sea, these natives had plenty of food available.
1769 landed a group of researchers, led by Gaspar de Portolà at the bay of San Francisco and camped near the present-day Woodside. 1822 Mexico became independent of Spain and the Spanish land grants, including the area of present-day California was one of those days, went into private hands. The first English-speaking colonists from Woodside were about 1830 William Smith, a fur trader from Oregon, John Cooper and James Pease and Charles Brown. They all have built their first houses and Charles Brown built a sawmill and put 1839 adobe forth. 1849 came Dr. Robert Orville Tripp, a dentist, in this small village and started his own practice. Convenient location, the existing timber and medical care got around quickly and 1859 Woodside already 112 registered students.
Gradually this changed the character of the valley. The saw mills were replaced by farms, cattle ranches and small vineyards. In the 1880s, wealthy families of San Francisco began to build their country seat here. In the 1960s, the city was transformed once again from the ground up and became a typical suburb of a large city.