Timeline of Mountain View, California

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Mountain View, California, USA.

Prior to 20th century

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• The Ohlone tribe inhabited the area, the Tamyen (Tamien, Thamien) people are associated with the Mountain View area.
• 1777 - Mission Santa Clara de Asís is founded, and the land that is now Mountain View was used as pasture for sheep and cattle by the Mission Indians.^[1]
• 1842 - Mexico grants 8,800 acre land (part of what is now part of Mountain View and Sunnyvale) to Francisco Estrada and his wife, Inez Castro.^[2][3]
• 1844 - Mexico grants 1,700 acre land grant of Rancho Posolmi, (the Moffett Field area) is granted to local Native American Lupe Ynigo.^[3]
• 1845 - The Rancho Pastoria de las Borregas (Ranch of the Ewe/Lamb Pasture) was a transferred land grant to Mariano Castro, after the death of his relative Francisco M. Estrada.^[1][2]
• 1852 - Stagecoach service begins, and the first stop (near Grant Road and El Camino Real) is formed for service between San Francisco and San Jose. A settlement is formed around this stop.^[2]
• 1854
  • Settlement named "Mountain View", naming is credited by local store keeper and the first postmaster, Jacob Shumway.^[3]
  • Public school district opens.^[3]
• 1867 - Rengstorff House (residence) built in Shoreline Park.^[3]
• 1888 - Mountain View Register newspaper begins publication.^[4][5]
• 1893 - Stanford University professors investigate the Castro Indian Mound also known as Indian Hill, Secondino Robles (in the neighborhood that is now known as Monte Loma) to better understand local Native American customs.^[6]

20th century

• 1900 - Bank of Mountain View in business.^[3]
• 1902
  • November 7: Mountain View incorporated.^[2]
  • November 7: Mountain View High School opens.^[7]
  • "Electric streetlights, telephone service and a municipal water system" begin operating (approximate date).^[3]
• 1904 - Seventh-day Adventist Pacific Press Publishing Association moves to town.^[2]
• 1905
  • Mountain View Public Library established.
  • Farmers and Merchants Bank built.^[2]
• 1906 - April 18: 1906 San Francisco earthquake.^[3]
• 1909 - Town Hall built.^[8]
• 1924 - The local high school is renamed to Mountain View Union High School and relocated to a larger campus, also serving the neighboring Los Altos and Whisman communities.^[7]
• 1930 - Mountain View Theater opens.^[9]
• 1933 - US Naval Air Station, Moffet Field established.^[2]
• 1934
  • Historic Adobe Building constructed.^[10]
  • Mountain View Buddhist Temple active.^[11][12]
• 1950
  • Monte Vista Drive-In cinema in business.^[9]
  • Population: 6,563.^[13]
• 1954 - Mountain View Historical Association formed.^[14][15]
• 1955 - February 24: Birth of Steve Jobs.^[16]
• 1956 - Beckman Instruments' Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory active.^[17]
• 1957 - The construction of San Antonio Shopping Center begins.^[3]
• 1960 - Population: 30,889.^[2]
• 1964 - Moffett Drive-In Theatre opened^[18]
• 1966 - Mayfield Mall opens (corner of Central Expressway and San Antonio Road)^[19]
• 1968 - Intel Corporation and Monolithic Memories in business.^[17]
• 1970 - Regional Metropolitan Transportation Commission established.
• 1975 - Old Mill Shopping Mall (shopping centre) in business.^[3]
• 1979 - Kannon Do Zen Meditation Center building is founded.^[11][20]
• 1981 - Mountain View Union High School closes, to be relocated and renamed.^[7]
• 1982 - Grid Compass laptop computer introduced.^[21]
• 1983
  • The Meadowlands garbage facility is closed, in order to restore wetlands^[22]
  • Mayfield Mall closes (corner of Central Expressway and San Antonio Road)^[19]
• 1985
  • Actel Corporation^[17] and Century Cinema^[9] in business.
  • Moffett Drive-In Theatre closed and demolished^[18]
• 1986 - Former Mayfield Mall location is converted into Hewlett Packard offices.^[19]
• 1987 - Downtown Mountain View Station opens.
• 1989
  • the Old Mill Shopping Mall closes
  • Stanford University surrenders the collected artifacts and remains from the Castro Shell Mound (the area is now known as the Monte Loma neighborhood) to the descendants, this includes 550 Ohlone Indian remains.^[23]
• 1991 - The Rengstorff House is fully restored^[24]
• 1993
  • The Peninsula Times-Tribune newspaper closes, paper served 10 local communities including Mountain View^[22]
  • Voice of Mountain View newspaper begins publication.^[4][25]
  • Anna Eshoo becomes U.S. representative for California's 14th congressional district.^[26][27]
• 1994 - Santa Clara County government computer network begins operating.^[28]
• 1996 - The Computer Museum (now called the Computer History Museum) moves part of the unused museum collection from Boston, Massachusetts to Mountain View and it's stored in a former Moffett Field building.^[29]
• 1995 - The Crossings, a housing community is built over the Old Mill Shopping Mall^[22]
• 1997 - City website online (approximate date).^[30]
• 1999
  • The Computer Museum moves the remainder of the museum collection to Mountain View and renamed to The Computer Museum History Center.^[31]
  • Google Inc. in business.^[3]

21st century

• 2002 - Computer History Museum opens at 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd.^[3][31]
• 2005 - The old pump windmill is relocated to the Rengstorff House, formerly located at Mountain View Grant Road Farm.^[32]
• 2006 - The Jehning Lock Museum opens at 175 Castro Street, featuring one of the largest collections of locks and keys.^[33]
• 2010 - Population: 74,066.^[34]
• 2011 - The Computer History Museum reopens, after a two year, $19 million remodel.^[35]
• 2014 - John McAlister becomes mayor.^[36]
• 2013 - Google leases the former Mayfield Mall location (corner of Central Expressway and San Antonio Road)^[37]
• 2016
  • Patricia Showalter becomes mayor.^[38]
  • Rent control approved.^[39]
  • November 13: Mountain View High School received national attention after placing History teacher Frank Navarro on administrative leave for allegedly drawing historical comparisons between Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler.^[40][41]

See also

• History of Santa Clara County, California
• Timeline of the San Francisco Bay Area
• History of Google, headquartered in city
• Timelines of other cities in the Northern California area of California: Fresno, Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose

References

Bibliography

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mountain View, California.

• Mountain View Public Library. "Mountain View History Center". 
• Items related to Mountain View, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).