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277496, 2410278. Website. cupertino.org. Cupertino (/ ˌkuːpərˈtiːnoʊ / KOOP-ər-TEEN-oh) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States, directly west of San Jose on the western edge of the Santa Clara Valley with portions extending into the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The population was 60,381 as of the 2020 census.
When the post office needed a new name because other towns had the same name, 19 th century business and 18 th century Spanish influences merged. John T. Doyle, a San Francisco lawyer and historian, had founded his company, the Cupertino Wine Co., in the 1880s, using the name given the nearby creek by Pedro Font.
Sanborn Maps at Library of Congress – Ohio. The Sanborn maps are extremely detailed maps of cities and villages produced by the Sanborn Company for use by fire insurance agents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The maps are at a scale of 50-feet to one-inch. Some of the maps for the largest cities in the U.S. were over 100 pages.
For roughly ten years during the Ohio Oil Rush in the late 19th century, the state enjoyed the position of leading producer of crude oil in the country. By 1884, 86 oil refineries were operating in Cleveland , the home of Standard Oil , making it the "oil capital of the world", [ 59 ] while producing the world's first billionaire, John D. Rockefeller .
This website has links to numerous free online histories and biographical collections published in the late 19th and early 20th century. For Ohio there are 5 state-wide biographical collections, 4 regional collections, and histories, with biographies, of all the counties listed below. For some counties there are several histories.
A winery on Montebello Ridge overlooking the Cupertino valley region was also operating by the late 19th century. Soon railroads, electric railways, and dirt roads traversed the West Side farmlands. Monta Vista, Cupertino's first housing tract, was developed in the mid-20th century as a result of the electric railway's construction.
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1802 - Congress authorizes formation of a state government in Ohio. 1803 - March 1 - Ohio admitted to the Union as the 17th state. Chillicothe is named state capital. 1804 - Ohio University, founded in 1804 in Athens, was the first university in Ohio and the Northwest Territory. 1810 - Zanesville named state capitol.
