El Palo Alto is a coast redwood located on the banks of San Francisquito Creek in Palo Alto, California, a city in the San Francisco Bay Area. The namesake of the city and a historical landmark, El Pa
El Palo Alto, circa 2004
November 1856 land survey of Rancho de las Pulgas—bounded below by San Francisquito Creek—indicating the "Palo Alto Redwoods" (above "Robles Rancho")
In the 1870s, by Carleton Watkins; the tree's earliest known photograph. The left trunk would fall.
Irrigation system for El Palo Alto
The San Francisco and San Jose Railroad was a railroad which linked the communities of San Francisco and San Jose, California, running the length of the San Francisco Peninsula. The company incorporat
Locomotive #11 of the SF&SJ
SF&SJ RR schedule and fare, January 1864
Ad for regular freight train on SF&SJ RR, effective 2 June 1864