The Circle of Palms Plaza is located in downtown San Jose, California. It is composed of a ring of palm trees encircling a California State Seal, and designates the California Historical Marker 461, the site of California's first state capital from 1849 to 1851.
Circle of Palms Plaza with the Fairmont San Jose and Fairmont Plaza
The ice rink at the plaza in the Winter
State seal at center of the Circle of Palms
San Jose, California, is the third largest city in the state, and the largest of all cities in the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California, with a population of 1,021,795.
Commemorative stamp marking the 200th anniversary (1977) of the El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe .
Don Salvio Pacheco served as alcalde from 1827 to 1828.
Harvesting near San Jose, California; 1874, John Ross Key.