25 Facts About Milpitas

Milpitas is a city in Santa Clara County, California, in Silicon Valley.

The city's origins lie in Rancho Milpitas, granted to Californio ranchero Jose Maria Alviso in 1835.

Milpitas incorporated in 1954 and has since become home to numerous high tech companies, as part of Silicon Valley.

Milpitas was first inhabited by Tamien people, a subgroup of the Ohlone people who had resided in the San Francisco Bay Area for thousands of years.

Some Ohlone lived in various villages within what is Milpitas, including sites underneath what are now the Calvary Assembly of God Church and Higuera Adobe Park.

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Over a century, Milpitas served as a popular rest stop for travelers on the old Oakland-San Jose Highway.

The first murder in Milpitas was committed in the early 1860s in "Rathbone's Saloon" .

An overwhelming majority of Milpitas registered voters voted "No" to annexation in the 1961 election as a result of a vigorous anti-annexation campaign.

Hayfields in Milpitas rapidly disappeared as industries and residential housing developments spread.

Once Ford's plans became known, Milpitas residents incorporated the town and passed an emergency ordinance permitting the newly installed city council to ban apartment construction and allow only single family homes.

One of the specifications for mortgages insured in Milpitas was an openly stated prohibition on sales to African Americans.

Milpitas is generally considered to be a San Jose suburb in the South Bay, a term used to denote the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Milpitas is divided into three sections by Interstates 680 and 880.

In reality, Milpitas has no concentrated downtown "center, " but instead has several small retail centers generally located near residential developments and anchored by a supermarket.

The so-called "Midtown" area, the oldest part of Milpitas, has few remaining historic residences and was the only commercial district that existed before 1945.

Milpitas is home to the headquarters of Adaptec, Aerohive Networks, FireEye, Intersil, SonicWall, IXYS Corporation, Viavi Solutions and Lumentum Holdings, KLA-Tencor, Linear Technology, LTX-Credence, SCA, Sigma Designs, and Flex.

Many other companies have corporate offices in Milpitas including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Western Digital, Cisco Systems, Renesas, Infineon Technologies, Varian Medical Systems, Teledyne, Quantum, LifeScan and International Microsystems Inc.

The Milpitas Alliance for the Arts, founded in 1997, is an organization which promotes and funds murals, plays, sculptures, and many other forms of art.

Milpitas is home to the largest Bay Area enclosed shopping mall, the Great Mall of the Bay Area.

Milpitas is home to the first and largest power center in Santa Clara County, McCarthy Ranch Marketplace which was built in 1994 by Devcon Construction and was originally anchored by Borders Books, Computer City, Service Merchandise, SportMart, OfficeMax, Walmart and many more different tenants.

The Cracolice Building was one of the oldest commercial buildings in Milpitas and was the site of many political conventions and meetings.

Milpitas itself has 17 traditional neighborhood parks which are generally 3 to 10 acres .

Milpitas has begun to develop the San Francisco Water District's Hetch Hetchy right-of-way as park land in lieu of using land from new high density residential developments adjacent to it.

Piedmont Road, Evans Road, and Jacklin Road have excellent bike lanes and sidewalks with ample spacing, but Montague Expressway and South Milpitas Boulevard have limited sidewalks and narrow bike lanes, which causes some problems for workers commuting by bike or on foot.

Until the merge with SBC, Milpitas had relied on Pacific Bell for its telecommunications services.

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