It remains a tight-knit community whose high school, Los Gatos High, has operated continuously since and boasts numerous famous alumni.
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In , the Mexican government granted Sebastian Peralta and Jose Hernandez a land patent for a 6,acre rancho. In , acres of rancho was chosen as the site of the settlement. The town was incorporated in , and by the population of the town had increased to 1, When the first General Plan was implemented in , the town had expanded to nearly 4, acres, or 6.
At the time of the revision of the first General Plan in , the town had expanded to an area of 9 square miles with a population of 24, In , Los Gatos occupied about 10 square miles and had a population of 27, Today, the population of the city is estimated to be 30, in a 14 square mile area. The town of Alma, originally called Forest House, is founded about a mile south of Lexington. The town becomes a bustling stagecoach stop.
The Los Gatos Canning Co. The company is bought by George Hooke in and then by the Hunt Brothers in In , Hunt Brothers move the cannery to the corner of North Santa Cruz and Saratoga avenues, where it remains until the business closes in Vigilante justice is exacted on young Incarnacion Garcia, who is accused of stabbing to death Rafael Miraville.
Within a half-hour of the murder, Garcia is hanged from the Main Street bridge. Later, witnesses at the inquest are unable to identify any of the more than people who viewed the hanging. Inventor John Bean moves to Los Gatos for health reasons. Upon discovering that his trees have scale, he invents a continuous-action insecticide spray pump. His inventions expand from spray pumps to clothes washers, and by the highly successful John Bean Manufacturing Co. The difficult-to-maintain line is discontinued in because of storm damage and increasing competition for passenger traffic from auto and bus transportation using Highway In addition to Jesuit studies, the Novitiate operates a winery from to The Novitiate was renamed the Jesuit Center in and now serves as housing for retired priests.
Hill at N. Santa Cruz Ave. For 60 years the house serves as a funeral home and later a restaurant. When the first General Plan was adopted in , the Town had grown to an area of approximately 4, acres, or 6. At the time the first General Plan was revised in , the Town had grown to an area of 9 square miles with a population of 24, Today, the Town population is estimated to be 30, in a 14 square mile area.
While most of the growth through the 's was due to new development, most of the growth in the 's and 's was due to annexations, in-fill development and changing demographics. The Town originally developed at a distance from other population centers and therefore evolved as an independent community having residential, commercial and industrial areas. The economics of the Town have changed from the wheat farming, milling, logging, orchard and cannery businesses in the 19 th and early 20 th centuries to the suburban, high tech, visitor destination businesses of today.
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