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Title: El Palo Alto
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1875
Publication Information: San Jose Public Library. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library. California Room
Contributing Institution: San José Public Library, California Room
Collection: Collection on Santa Clara County's Agricultural Past
Rights Information: Public domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Photograph of a twin trunk Coastal Redwood tree named "El Palo Alto" (the tall stick) standing on the banks of San Francisquito Creek in Palo Alto. Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portola camped under this redwood in November 1769. Indians, travelers, and settlers used the tree as a landmark. One of the two trunks fell or was removed in the 1880s. The other still stands today, and is thought to be over 1000 years old. The tree is the official symbol of the City of Palo Alto.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print; 24x 18 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt8779r1nt
CSJ_169
ARB-C168
Language: English
Subject: Coast Redwood--California--Palo Alto
Historic Trees-California--Palo Alto
Trestles
Portola, Gaspar de
Place: Palo Alto (Calif.)

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