Editing Mountain View, California (section)

==History==
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[[File:MountainView-1890.png|thumb|upright|Map of Mountain View surrounds, 1890. Note [[Rancho Posolmi]] (here called Ynigo Rancho) and [[Rancho Pastoria de las Borregas]]. [[Mountain View Whisman School District]] is named for Whisman.]]
[[File:2009-0723-CA-MtnViewAdobe.jpg|thumb|[[Mountain View Adobe]] was constructed as a [[Works Progress Administration]] project in 1934.]]

The fertile land between the [[Santa Cruz Mountains]] and the shores of the southern [[San Francisco Bay]] once supported multiple villages of the indigenous [[Ohlone people]]. Spanish missionaries utilized the land for sheep pastures.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SfbOwB-bidwC&q=images+of+america+California|title=Mountain View|first=Nicholas|last=Perry|date=November 9, 2012|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=9780738595764 |access-date=November 9, 2023|via=Google Books}}</ref>

The Mexican land grant of [[Rancho Pastoria de las Borregas]] was given in 1842 by [[Alta California]] Governor [[Juan Bautista Alvarado|Juan Alvarado]] to Francisco Estrada. This grant was later passed on to [[Mariano Castro (Californio)|Mariano Castro]], who sold half of the land to Martin Murphy Jr. 
Eventually, the former land grant was developed as the cities of Mountain View and [[Sunnyvale, California|Sunnyvale]].

The southwest shore of San Francisco Bay was settled by European-Americans in 1852 as a stagecoach station. This was after the United States acquired California. By the early 1900s, it was a shipping point for fruit and grain, as well as a center of religious book publishing.<ref name="EB">{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Mountain-View-California |title=Mountain View, California, United States |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia Britannica]] |access-date=February 19, 2018}}</ref>    
  
The early pioneers were commonly buried at the old cemetery between Mercy & Church, off Castro Street. This is now the site of the present city library and park, known as Pioneer Park.

===Residents===
Reverend Henry Merrill Henderson, born in Maryland, arrived here at age 35 with his family in 1852; he was meeting relatives: the Ricketts and others who had migrated from [[Missouri]] and [[Kentucky]]. He was the first Baptist minister in town. He soon rode a circuit for preaching, going by horseback to Half-Moon Bay and [[Saratoga, California|McCarthysville]] for services.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}

Later that year, Seligman Weilheimer and his brother Samuel immigrated from Dossenheim, [[Baden, Germany]]. They settled on the next plot, and in 1856 built the first big general merchandise store in the settlement.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hodder |first=Mary |title=History Of Castro Street And Its Buildings |url=https://www.livablemv.org/2019/03/15/history-of-castro-street-and-its-building/ |access-date=March 2, 2023 |website=Livable Mountain View |language=en-US |archive-date=March 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230302220026/https://www.livablemv.org/2019/03/15/history-of-castro-street-and-its-building/ |url-status=dead}}</ref>

William Bubb bought {{convert|80|acres|ha}} to farm in October 1851; he became a leader in town and died there in 1864. His heirs' descendants prospered, marrying into other pioneer families.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}

===Advent of local aerospace and electronics industries===
The U.S. Navy's adjacent {{convert|1000|acre|km2|adj=on}} Moffett Field Complex was constructed beginning after 1931; its development attracted many workers and it brought many economic opportunities. After [[World War II]], the population grew significantly with the development of regional aerospace and electronics industries.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mountainview.gov/services/learn_about_our_city/default.asp |title=City of Mountain View – Learn About Our City |access-date=March 15, 2011 |archive-date=March 26, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110326142047/http://www.mountainview.gov/services/learn_about_our_city/default.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref> Between 1950 and 1960, the population grew from 6,563 to 30,889, an increase of 370.7%.

Between 1929 and 1994, [[Moffett Field Naval Air Station]] operated in Mountain View. In 1940, the city was the base of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (now the NASA Ames Research Center), which had a strong influence on the development of aerospace and electronics industries.<ref name="EB" />

===Current economic climate===
Today, high technology is the foundation of the local economy. Few remnants are visible of the city's agricultural past.

In 1990, Kevin Duggan began his position as city manager. He built a relationship with Google, Inc., and issued a long-term lease to it and other technology companies. <!-- A lease of land? whose? What were the terms of the leases? Needs explanation-->As of 2014, those leases generate over $5 million per year in city revenue. The Castro Street downtown area also benefited from a special tax district.<ref>{{cite news|last=Gibboney |first=Tom |date=July 4, 2014 |title=A front-row seat watching the city boom: Farewell to the Voice |newspaper=[[Embarcadero Media|Mountain View Voice]]}}</ref>

In 2016, the city's voters approved a [[rent control]] ordinance.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/14/business/mountain-view-california-confronts-housing-crisis.html |title=Teslas in the Trailer Park: A California City Faces Its Housing Squeeze |last=Dougherty |first=Conor |work=The New York Times |date=November 14, 2016 |access-date=October 19, 2018 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/151783/deceptive-shameful-lucratively-funded-war-rent-control |title=The Deceptive, Shameful, Lucratively Funded War Against Rent Control |magazine=The New Republic |access-date=October 19, 2018 |language=en-US |first=Sophie |last=Kasakove}}</ref>