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Santa Teresa is a district of
San Jose, California San Jose, officially San José (; ; ), is a major city in the U.S. state of California that is the cultural, financial, and political center of Silicon Valley and largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2020 popu ...
, United States, located in
South San Jose South San Jose is the southern region of San Jose, California. The name "South Side" refers to an area bounded roughly by Hillsdale Avenue and Capitol Expressway to the North, Camden Avenue to the West, Highway 101 and Hellyer Avenue on the east ...
. Founded in 1834, Santa Teresa was originally established as Rancho Santa Teresa by the Bernal family, a prominent
Californio Californio (plural Californios) is a term used to designate a Hispanic Californian, especially those descended from Spanish and Mexican settlers of the 17th through 19th centuries. California's Spanish-speaking community has resided there sin ...
clan. Today, Santa Teresa is largely a residential area, but also home to numerous
Silicon Valley Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that serves as a global center for high technology and innovation. Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it corresponds roughly to the geographical areas San Mateo Cou ...
tech campuses. Santa Teresa is the southernmost urban district of San Jose, bordering the largely protected Coyote Valley to its south. It is bound by the
Santa Teresa Hills The Santa Teresa Hills are a range of mountains in Santa Clara County, California, located primarily in the city of San Jose. They separate the San Jose neighborhoods of Almaden Valley to the west and Santa Teresa to the east. Geography The r ...
to its west and the
Bayshore Freeway The Bayshore Freeway is a part of U.S. Route 101 (US 101) in the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California. It runs along the west shore of the San Francisco Bay, connecting San Jose with San Francisco. Within the city of San Fran ...
(101) to its east.


History

Santa Teresa was founded in 1834 as Rancho Santa Teresa, a rancho grant given by Governor
José Figueroa José Figueroa (1792 – 29 September 1835), was a General and the Mexican Governor of Alta California from 1833 to 1835. He wrote the first book to be published in California. Background and governorship Figueroa was a Mestizo of Spanish ...
to Don José Joaquín Bernal, a retired soldier who came to
Alta California Alta California ('Upper California'), also known as ('New California') among other names, was a province of New Spain, formally established in 1804. Along with the Baja California peninsula, it had previously comprised the province of , but ...
as part of the
De Anza Expedition Juan Bautista de Anza Bezerra Nieto (July 6 or 7, 1736 – December 19, 1788) was an expeditionary leader, military officer, and politician primarily in California and New Mexico under the Spanish Empire. He is credited as one of the founding fa ...
in 1776.Santa Clara County Parks: Bernal-Gulnac-Joice Ranch
/ref> Prior to receiving the rancho grant, José Joaquín Bernal had already settled in the area since 1826. Bernal named the area Santa Teresa after attributing the healing waters of the Santa Teresa Spring to
Saint Teresa of Ávila In religious belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness, likeness, or closeness to God. However, the use of the term ''saint'' depends on the context and denomination. In Catholic, Eastern Orth ...
, the 16th century Spanish saint.Friends of Santa Teresa Park - Newsletter Summer 2020
/ref> Rancho Santa Teresa quickly became an important center for
Californio Californio (plural Californios) is a term used to designate a Hispanic Californian, especially those descended from Spanish and Mexican settlers of the 17th through 19th centuries. California's Spanish-speaking community has resided there sin ...
life in the southern Santa Clara Valley, attracting
vaquero The ''vaquero'' (; pt, vaqueiro, , ) is a horse-mounted livestock herder of a tradition that has its roots in the Iberian Peninsula and extensively developed in Mexico from a methodology brought to Latin America from Spain. The vaquero became t ...
s and their families from the region with regular ''fiestas'' featuring
Fandango Fandango is a lively partner dance originating from Portugal and Spain, usually in triple meter, traditionally accompanied by guitars, castanets, or hand-clapping. Fandango can both be sung and danced. Sung fandango is usually bipartite: it has ...
dancing and large feasts. Following the death of Don José Joaquín, his second son, Don Bruno Bernal, takes over the rancho's administration, while his two brothers, Agustín and Juan Pablo, sought businesses ventures outside of Santa Teresa. By the time of the
California Gold Rush The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California f ...
, Agustín and Juan Pablo were selling their cattle to miners in
Gold Country The Gold Country (also known as Mother Lode Country) is a historic region in the northern portion of the U.S. state of California, that is primarily on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada. It is famed for the mineral deposits and gold mines ...
, while Bruno managed affairs at home. Don Bruno became one of the region's most prominent public figures and ran the rancho until his death in 1863. Today, a part of the original rancho is preserved as the Rancho Santa Teresa Historic District, though the original adobe hacienda of the rancho has since burned down. The Treaty of Santa Teresa ( es, Tratado de Santa Teresa) was signed at the rancho in 1844, temporarily ending the hostilities between Governor
Manuel Micheltorena Joseph Manuel María Joaquin Micheltorena y Llano (8 June 1804 – 7 September 1853) was a brigadier general of the Mexican Army, adjutant-general of the same, governor, commandant-general and inspector of the department of Las Californias, t ...
and the revolters led by former Governor
Juan Bautista Alvarado Juan Bautista Valentín Alvarado y Vallejo (February 14, 1809 – July 13, 1882) was a Californio politician that served as Governor of Alta California from 1837-42. Prior to his term as governor, Alvarado briefly led a movement for independen ...
. RAMAC Park is named after the IBM 305 RAMAC, the first computer to use a
disk drive Disk storage (also sometimes called drive storage) is a general category of storage mechanisms where data is recorded by various electronic, magnetic, optical, or mechanical changes to a surface layer of one or more rotating disks. A disk drive is ...
, which was developed at the IBM Santa Teresa Lab in the 1950s.Cadence Community - RAMAC Park and the Origin of the Disk Drive
/ref>


Geography

Santa Teresa is located in
South San Jose South San Jose is the southern region of San Jose, California. The name "South Side" refers to an area bounded roughly by Hillsdale Avenue and Capitol Expressway to the North, Camden Avenue to the West, Highway 101 and Hellyer Avenue on the east ...
. It is separated in the west from
Almaden Valley , other_name= , native_name= es, Almadén , nickname= , settlement_type= Neighborhood of San Jose , total_type= , motto= , image_skyline = , flag_size= , image_sea= , seal_size= , image_shield= , shield_size= , image_blank_emblem= , ...
by the
Santa Teresa Hills The Santa Teresa Hills are a range of mountains in Santa Clara County, California, located primarily in the city of San Jose. They separate the San Jose neighborhoods of Almaden Valley to the west and Santa Teresa to the east. Geography The r ...
and located north of Coyote Valley, which separates Santa Teresa from the Madrone neighborhood of Morgan Hill. To the northeast of Santa Teresa is Edenvale and to the northwest is
Blossom Valley Blossom Valley is a neighborhood of San Jose, California, located in South San Jose. Geography Blossom Valley is located in South San Jose. It is northeast of Almaden Valley, northwest of Santa Teresa, east of Cambrian, west of Edenvale, and s ...
. Tulare Hill serves as the barrier between the southern tip of Santa Teresa and Coyote Valley. It is made up of the ZIP Codes of 95119, 95139, 95193, 95123, and the parts of 95138 that are west of Coyote Creek. The
Cottle Transit Village Cottle may refer to: Places * Cottle, Kentucky, United States * Cottle County, Texas, United States * Cottle (VTA) Cottle station is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA). The station is served by ...
is a semi-urban district of Santa Teresa located in the northern-central portion of the district.


Parks and plazas

* Santa Teresa County Park *Palmia Park *Los Paseos Park *George Page Park *Ramac Park *Raleigh Linear Park *Avenida España Park *Black Mountain Bowmen


Education

Santa Teresa is mostly served by the Oak Grove School District, which includes: *Taylor Elementary School *Santa Teresa Elementary School *Bernal Intermediate School *
Santa Teresa High School Santa Teresa High School (also referred to as STHS) is a public high school located in the suburban Santa Teresa neighborhood of southern San Jose, California. The school is a member of the East Side Union High School District and serves studen ...
The southernmost portions of Santa Teresa are served by the
Morgan Hill Unified School District The Morgan Hill Unified School District (MHUSD) is a public school district operating eight elementary schools, two middle schools, and three high schools in southern Santa Clara County, California. Its jurisdiction covers all of Morgan Hill, C ...
, which operates two schools in Santa Teresa: * Los Paseos Elementary School * Martin Murphy Middle School


Transportation

Santa Teresa is served by three stations of the
VTA light rail VTA Light Rail is a light rail system in San Jose and nearby cities in Santa Clara County, California. It is operated by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, or VTA, and consists of of network comprising three main lines on stand ...
. *
Cottle station Cottle station is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA). The station is served by the Blue Line of the VTA Light Rail system. It was part of the original ''Guadalupe Line'', the first segment of lig ...
on Cottle Rd (central Santa Teresa) *
Santa Teresa station Santa Teresa station is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA). This station is the southern terminus of the Blue Line of the VTA Light Rail system. It was built in the late 1980s as part of the ori ...
on Santa Teresa Blvd (southern Santa Teresa) *
Snell station Snell station is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA). The station is served by the Blue Line of the VTA Light Rail system. It was part of the original ''Guadalupe Line'', the first segment of light ...
on Snell Rd (serving both western Santa Teresa and
Blossom Valley Blossom Valley is a neighborhood of San Jose, California, located in South San Jose. Geography Blossom Valley is located in South San Jose. It is northeast of Almaden Valley, northwest of Santa Teresa, east of Cambrian, west of Edenvale, and s ...
)


Landmarks

*
Kaiser San Jose Medical Center Kaiser San Jose Medical Center, also known as Kaiser Santa Teresa, is a Kaiser Permanente hospital in San Jose, California, located in the Santa Teresa district of South San Jose. Kaiser San Jose has been ranked within the top 50 best hospitals ...
* Santa Teresa County Park * Rancho Santa Teresa Historic District


Popular culture

*Santa Teresa is the home of
Kinsey Millhone Kinsey Millhone is a fictional character created by the American author Sue Grafton (1940–2017) for her "alphabet mysteries" series of 25 best-selling novels which debuted in 1982. Millhone, a former police officer turned private investigator ...
in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of detective novels.


Gallery

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Kaiser San Jose Medical Center Kaiser San Jose Medical Center, also known as Kaiser Santa Teresa, is a Kaiser Permanente hospital in San Jose, California, located in the Santa Teresa district of South San Jose. Kaiser San Jose has been ranked within the top 50 best hospitals ...
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Equinix Equinix, Inc. is an American multinational company headquartered in Redwood City, California, that specializes in Internet connection and data centers. The company is a leader in global colocation data center market share, with 240 data centers ...
San Jose campus


References


External links


City of San Jose Neighborhood Boundaries Map
{{Neighborhoods of San Jose Neighborhoods in San Jose, California