Palo Alto
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- Names
Palo Alto
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on W shore of San Francisco Bay; name means "tall tree" and town was named after Senator Leland Standford's Palo Alto farm; site of Stanford University (1891) and related research-oriented industries.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
- Died
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