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Santa Clara is a city in Santa Clara County, western California, on the Guadalupe River, in the Santa Clara Valley, near San Jose; incorporated 1852. It is part of a major area ("Silicon Valley") for developing and producing electronic equipment; other manufactures include fiberglass, paper products, and chemicals. Santa Clara University (1851), a community college, an amusement park, and several museums, including the Triton Museum of Art are here. The city grew around Mission Santa Clara de Asís (1777) and is named for St. Clare (Spanish Santa Clara) of Assisi.

The community was settled in 1849 by Martin Murphy and called Murphy’s Station (1864-1880) and Encinal (1880-1901). It was renamed Santa Clara in 1901, and incorporated as a city in 1912 following an industrial expansion in the wake of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, which prompted manufacturers to relocate to the Santa Clara Valley. But the city remained primarily an agricultural community until rapid growth began in the 1950s.