Editing Santa Clara, California (section)

===American period===
[[File:Mission Santa Clara de Asís (1849; oil on canvas).jpg|thumb|left|upright=1|[[Mission Santa Clara de Asís]] was founded by the Spanish in 1777.]]
[[File:Battle_of_Santa_Clara,_California_(cropped).jpg|thumb|left|upright=1|The 1847 [[Battle of Santa Clara (1847)|Battle of Santa Clara]], fought between the Americans and the [[Californios]], was one of the last battles of the [[Conquest of California]].]]
In 1851, [[Santa Clara College]] was established on the grounds of the original Mission. In 1852, Santa Clara was [[municipal corporation|incorporated]] as a town; it became state-chartered by 1862.

For the next century, the economy centered on agriculture since orchards and vegetables were thriving in the fertile soil. By the beginning of the 20th century, the population had reached 5,000 and stayed about the same for many years.

In 1905, the first public high-altitude flights by humans were made over Santa Clara in gliders designed by [[John J. Montgomery]]. The [[semiconductor industry]], which sprouted around 1960, changed the city and surrounding [[Santa Clara Valley|Valley of Heart's Delight]]; little of its agricultural past remains.

Santa Clara's first medical hospital was built in 1963. This structure, on Kiely Boulevard, was replaced in 2007 with a new Kaiser Permanente medical center located on Lawrence Expressway at Homestead Road.

Santa Clara was also home to a major mental health facility, [[Agnews State Hospital]]. According to the National Park Service, more than 100 persons were killed at this site in the 1906 earthquake. The site is the former home to [[Sun Microsystems]] and is listed in the [[National Register of Historic Places]].

In 1963, Santa Clara City Council voted to knock down the eight-block grid of Downtown Santa Clara, in order to receive federal funding for [[urban renewal]].<ref>'' Santa Clara Journal'' microfilm, Santa Clara, California Wednesday, January 2, 1963, First (Front) page, Article: Renewal Hits Homestretch, Vol 91 No. 9, Santa Clara City Public Library Archives in Santa Clara, CA</ref><ref>Santa Clara City Urban Renewal: Home Movie Clips 1963–1966 Source by Warburton, Austen; Warburton, Margot: VHS: 1 Tape of 1 Call Number: Video 979.473 S23 Case, Rights: Copyrighted. Rights are owned by Santa Clara City Library</ref> Since 2017, there has been a grassroots movement to rebuild Santa Clara's historic downtown.<ref>{{Cite web |title=New Movement To Rebuild Old Downtown Santa Clara |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ8KCjESmJc&t=0 |via=YouTube}}</ref>